Sandakan Mosque
Sandakan muslim community is served by the Sandakan mosque, built on the edges of the bay next to Kampung Buli Sim Sim, where the town of Sandakan began in 1879. The mosque is the largest mosque in Sandakan town, built in the early 1986. It is served as a holy place for the Muslim community to conduct their praying ceremonies, especially during the Hari Raya celebration.
Pu Jih Shi
Puh Ji Shi is another attraction which tourist should not miss. It is one of the largest Chinese Temple in South East Asia (SEA), which attracts thousands of tourists every year. For an unrivalled panoramic view of Sandakan Bay and a look at its temple, a visit should be made to the extravagantly ornate Pu Jih Shi Buddhist Temple, on the hilltop above Tanah Merah south of Sandakan town centre. Built and decorated in 1987 at a cost of around USD 2 million, the temple is a blaze of red and gold, with writhing dragons, gilded Buddhas, hundreds of gleaming lamps and the fragrance of burning incense.
Sri Sithi Vinayagar Temple
This temple devoted to Lord Sri Sithi Vinayagar was built in 1991 at cost of almost RM300,000. The need for a Hindu temple to cater for the religious obligations of the Indian population of the Hindu faith was first realised and initiated by the Sandakan India Association. (SIA). The SIA then allocated a small piece of its land at mile 1 1/2, Labuk Road to site the temple. The SSV temple which held its ground breaking ceremony on 9 of September 1989, was built by artisans and sculptors especially brought from India. This beautiful temple, the only one of its kind in the whole Sabah and Sarawak (East Malaysia) held its first "Kumbabhishegam" or the Consecration Ceremony on 19th May 1991 and has since been an important milestone in the history of Sandakan Indian Community.
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