Australia
- Australia’s oldest is the Melbourne Yuan temple established in 1866. Melbourne also hosts the worlds oldest chinatown in the Western world, which is no coincidence because of the Gold Rush of the 1860s.
- However Australia had a white Australia policy up until Gough Whitlam’s election.
Canada
- the earliest known Chinese temple in Canada opened in 1880 which is 14 years after Australia’s first Chinese temple. It is noted that a lot of it is supposedly all about the factors that influenced.’
- It’s also known that Vancouver was were the first Chinese settlements had landed in North America. As a result Chinese were used as slave labour in Canada until the 1910s were they were release.
Indonesia
Indonesia’s very first chinese temple was built in 1712. Built in Semarang in the Java Province. With the buildings
Malaysia
Malaysia opened it’s first chinese temple.
The Cheng Hoon Teng Temple, located in Malacca City, is recognized as the oldest functioning Chinese temple in Malaysia, established in 1645.
It is a renowned place of worship for the Three Doctrinal Systems of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, reflecting the rich, early Chinese cultural influence in the region.
Thailand
Thailand opened it’s first Chinese temple in 1658 named the Leng Buai La Shrine.
Netherlands
The first official Chinese Temple that was ever opened within Europe (now integrated into the EU) was He Hua Temple shown here in the Netherlands.
It is known as Europe’s largest bhuddist temple.