砂拉越美里百年大伯公古庙 Tua Pek Gong Temple Miri Sarawak tourists attraction

介绍
大伯公庙位于美里的市中心，是座超过30年的庙宇。供奉的神像有福德正神（大伯公），观音，妈祖，太岁爷，诸生娘娘，地母娘娘，虎爷。
大伯公就是中国内地所称的“土地公”，寺庙雕梁画柱，十分精美，龙柱雕功更加的显示出栩栩如生的龙雕像。除了初一十五及神诞香火鼎盛外，平日也有信徒们诚心到来烧香祭拜。大伯公庙里设有小店方便人们购买祭拜品如香，金纸，贵人符等等。
开放时间
全年 周一-周二, 周四-周日 7:00-16:00开放
Tua Pek Kong Temple (Chinese: 美里大伯公廟)[2] is a Chinese temple situated right next to the Miri Fish Market in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is the oldest temple in the present-day Miri city
Since the oil boom of Miri in the early 1900s, the town population increased rapidly before an unknown epidemic began to struck the town which resulting to the deaths of many of the town population. The local Chinese residents believed the epidemic is caused by evil spirits roaming around the area with a Chinese man named Chan Chak began to calling a monk to appease the spirits with spirit-pacifying ritual being carried out near the Miri River with an altar being placed there. With the epidemic began to subsided following the ritual, the local Chinese residents constructed a temple near the river to revere Tua Pek Kong as a gratitude to the latter in 1913. The temple stays until this day where it survived the Japanese bombings on the town during World War II. It was renovated in 1977. In 2017, a new paifang has been constructed for the temple.