If you would like to pray
for blessing, the Lim Sz Chong Su Temple is one of the well-known temples in
Batu Pahat. The Lim Sz Chong Su Temple is also known as the ‘Ma Zor Keng’ which
is from the pronunciation of Hokkien and it is written as 妈祖庙 in Mandarin. ‘Ma
Zor’ is one of the Gods in Buddhist and ‘Keng’ means the temple in Hokkien.
Although it is a small temple, but it is very popular and many people
from outstations will visit here. This temple has been operating since the year
of 1932 which lasts for 85 years until today. Every late night of the Lunar
Chinese New Year’s Eve, this temple will be fully occupied where people will be
waiting for 12am of the New Year’s first day where we called that Chor 1 (大年初一) to be the first person
that stick the incense stick onto the censer. This custom is handed down from
generation to generation where people believe that the first person that sticks
the incense onto the censer will be blessed.
People believe this ‘Ma Zor Keng’ is very
efficacious with things you pray for. Therefore, normally when the important
exams are around the corner, many parents will bring their children to pray at
this temple. We have the custom here which is to bend down and walk through the
‘tunnel’ under the cabinet that places the Gods statues for three rounds and
you will be blessed.
This is the counter that sells joss paper,
incense sticks, joss candles and so on. The first thing here is that you are
suggested to buy anyone of these for prayer use however it isn’t a must to buy,
it depends on individual. The simplest will be the incense stick only and all
these cost only few Ringgits for each.
Then you will have
to pray using the incense sticks according to the sequence there. Normally,
people will speak from the bottom of heart on what they want to pray for to the
God and believe that God will be able to know what we pray for.
If you did buy the joss paper, then you will
have to burn it at the burner after praying with the incense sticks. There is a
huge burner provided.
After all the
prayer had done, you can have a visit at the wish pond with lots of tortoises
in it. To make a wish, what you need is a coin regardless the amount, and you
make a wish towards the pond and lastly toss the coin into the gold ingot at
the center.
Besides, this is
the place where they place the ancestors memorial tablets of the ‘Lim Sz’ which
means the ancestors of people with the surname of ‘Lim’ or 林 in Mandarin. As this temple
is actually belongs to the ‘Lim Sz’ where it called the Lim Sz Chong Su Temple.
Location: No. 3, Jalan Fatimah, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Johor, Malaysia.
It is open for people to visit every day from 7am to 9pm. While every 1st
and 15th day of the month according to the Lunar calendar, it will
open start from 6am to 9pm.
Contact number: 07-4343242
During the weekend, many singaporean will go there to pray for blessing.
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