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Arulmigu Velmurugan Gnanamuneeswarar Temple

Tourist attraction Hindu temple

One of the Best Places To Visits in Seng Kang


Address

50 Rivervale Cres, Singapore 545029

Website

www.avgmt.com

Contact

+65 6294 6739

Rating on Google Maps

4.70 (1K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Friday: 7 am to 12 pm, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
  • Saturday: 7 am to 12 pm, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
  • Sunday: 7 am to 12 pm, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
  • Monday: 7 am to 12 pm, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
  • Tuesday: 7 am to 12 pm, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
  • Wednesday: 7 am to 12 pm, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
  • Thursday: 7 am to 12 pm, 6:30 to 9:30 pm

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  • 2/5 ViQuEEn R. 8 months ago on Google • 6 reviews
    Beautiful and peaceful neighbourhood temple.I recently moved near this neighbourhood so wanted to visit a temple near me. Of course , favouritism is everywhere where people prefer to entertain their own race, caste and ethnic group. Hello ! This ain’t India ! I use to think Indians are Indians except in India but events in this Temple proved me wrong. I always believed regardless of being North Indian,tamil,telugu or Malayalis we should be proud and embrace Hinduism. Oh wells. Went over on 3/9/23 for Shridi Sai Baba prayers , happened to be observing something. There was a Vinayagar prayer in the main temple done by a family and followed an annathaanam by the same family. However the lady who did the prayers was only calling and serving food for her own people and refusing to serve people who were Q-ing up. She refused to give certain food to the public and kept calling her own people to come get the food. How disgusting. Then u jolly well pray at home and have dinner with ur own people. Why come to the temple. In Hinduism Annadanam brings many benefits: It attracts divine blessings. It helps remove past karma. It gives one satisfaction. The blessings of those who receive your Annadanam will bring positivity to your life. It pleases your ancestors and helps them gain Moksha. Really digusted with the behaviour of some who doesn’t understand what’s the meaning of culture and tradition. I come from a family where on May Day we give food to labourers in temple for all their hard work. Born and bred in Singapore we don’t see any differences when anyone comes to the temple. Just taken aback. You can see clearly in the photo the two of them rushing to finish the food. And the lady in green calling her family and friends to cut the Q to eat. She even kept some of the food for them . Then let the public know it’s a private family event. The public are not beggars. As for the Sai baba inauguration prayers , definitely poorly organised. Temple could have done way better. I been to Potong Pasir , Keong Saik road and even south bridge road temple for events but never seen anything so poorly managed like this. There are humble usher and management people who trying so hard to please everyone. Just felt this favouritism could have been prevented when certain ethnic group( don’t wish to say who ) kept calling their own people to enter baba hall for Deepa aarathanai and “special” prayers. Then when other are trying to enter the same way the privileged were brought in they were chased away. Could have done better if there was a balance of volunteers. People go to temple to see God and to pray in peace. Not for cinematic drama . I will still continue to visit this temple however it depends on the management on handling their people and public properly.
    7 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 kanthi i. 7 months ago on Google • 5 reviews
    Participated in Sai mandalabishegam on 29/9/2033 . My kids performed at the concert that day. Since there was no one to serve food at the counter at that moment (8.30 pm), I helped myself to serve food (sambar rice) to my 3 kids and took 3 broken pieces of appalam. From nowhere came a person with a black t-shirt with red sleeve and gave a remark as how much appalam one person will take ..I said I am here with 3 kids and that's why took 3 broken pieces . He sarcastically smiled and said, if one person takes so much and told me to go.. I said it is supposed to be annadhanam and this is rude . He replied not to lecture and told me to leave. This was totally unexpected at a place where food is served as annadhanam. He claimed that he is the manager there . Very unpleasant experience. People here are not here to beg food from him. This is very poor attitude. Person with this kind of attitude is not fit to be a manager / committe member. I hope the temple management advices him on how to behave at a place where food is being served.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 P B. 4 months ago on Google • 42 reviews
    Came down on New Year and was shocked at the crowd. It was shoulder to shoulder, crowd everywhere. No queue management / direction by temple authorities. The food serving area had crowds queueing for more than an hour. As a Malaysian, I was honestly a bit shocked. I have not seen this kind of queueing back home on even PHs nor this kind of waiting for food. The serving of the food was also slow, seating area were full and cordoned off. I do not know if those sitting down early were the immediate family members of the sponsors. Temple authorities should work out a system during peak periods, crowds shouldn't be allowed to gather so early food causing a jam around the entrance. Lastly, the floor was sticky with muddy foot prints all the way from the shoes area till the stairs too.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 ashwini c. 3 months ago on Google • 47 reviews New
    A beautiful divine temple with all god idols here. Feels very peaceful sitting inside here. Its very crowded on important occasions.

  • 5/5 Mayuranathan P. 4 months ago on Google • 23 reviews
    Very nice and famous Hindu temple. It's famous for the Arupadai Murugan, but a lot of other God's statues are available like vinayagar, iyyappan, thatchinamoorthy, panchamuga anjaneyar, navagiragangal, manapparai muthumari amman, sivan, bramma and vishnu also. On the other side of the temple, the Baba temple is also available. Must visit place.

  • 5/5 Praveen G. 6 months ago on Google • 11 reviews
    Subramanyeswara Swami temple. You can have Shirdi Sai Baba darsan too in the same temple.

  • 1/5 Andy L. 4 months ago on Google • 5 reviews
    Please don’t organise events at the night time especially the next day where kids and adults need to go school and work.please be considerate. 10.15pm already and you blast the music so loud!!!

  • 1/5 MADHAV G. 6 months ago on Google
    Had called up the temple to request for a lord bhairava prayers for my family… the person who answered was so put off that I could not speak in Tamil (even though I apologised for it when I should not have to apologise for not being able to speak in a language which is neither my mother tongue nor one that I learnt in school) that he was so rude to me and told me in broken english and an arrogant tone to “directly come temple for details” and hung up the phone on me without waiting for me to reply. I am a born and brought up third generation singaporean of North Indian ethnicity and I speak three different languages fluently.. so just because I can’t speak in Tamil, should an ill mannered and arrogant temple employee not allow me to book my prayer and hang up on me? It’s a shame that such rude, uncouth and unrefined ppl are employed in a place as pure as a temple.

  • 1/5 thilaga c. 4 months ago on Google
    Reached temple around 1050am and was told that no more arcahana is available because it is margali month. First time I came across this kind of rule. Very disappointed.

  • 1/5 samy s. 4 months ago on Google • 2 reviews
    The temple have strict attire. Can’t understand why bermuda short are not allowed at this particular temple whereas any other temple in Singapore allow such attire. The management should be practical in implementing dress code !
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Saritha R. 5 months ago on Google • 1 review
    Its a feeling like we reached heaven after reaching singapore. I go daily

  • 5/5 Rekha B. 3 months ago on Google • 2 reviews New
    It's a very happy place ..loved the temple ..very divine .Sai baba temple is soooo good


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