Kheng Hock Keong
Kheng Hock Keong in 2013
Religion
Affiliation	Chinese folk religion, Mazuism
Location
Location	426-432 Strand Road, Yangon
Country	Myanmar
Shown within Myanmar
Geographic coordinates	16°46′21.32″N 96°8′55.27″E / 16.7725889°N 96.1486861°E / 16.7725889; 96.1486861
Architecture
Completed	1863; 161 years ago (1863)

Kheng Hock Keong
Traditional Chinese	慶福宮
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qìngfú Gōng Southern Min Hokkien POJ Khèng-hok-kiong
Burmese name
Burmese	ခိန့်ဟုတ်ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာဘုရားကျောင်း

The Kheng Hock Temple, also known as the Kheng Hock Keong (慶福宮), is the largest and oldest temple to the Chinese sea-goddess Mazu in Yangon, Burma. It is located on the corner of Sintodan Street and Strand Road in Latha Township. Kheng Hock Keong is maintained by a Hokkien Chinese clan association.^[1] The temple attracts mostly Hokkien and Hakka worshipers, while the other temple in Latha Township, called the Guanyin Gumiao Temple, attracts Cantonese worshipers.

Establishment

It was originally built as a wooden temple in 1861 and completed in 1863, built in the Fujian style, on a tax-exempt plot of land granted by the British authorities.^[2][3] The founding Kheng Hock Keong Trust Committee was composed of Rangoon's largest Hokkien clans, representing the Chan-Khoo, Lim, Tan, Yeo, Lee, and Su clans.^[3] At the temple's founding, the primary deity was Guanyin. A new brick building was completed in 1903, costing over 153,000 rupees.^[2]

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