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Batu Caves (Tamil: பத்து மலை, romanized: Pathu malai) is a mogote with a series of limestone caves in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located about 13 km (8.1 mi) north of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The cave complex contains many Hindu temples, the most popular of which is a shrine dedicated to the deity Murugan.
The Sam Poh Tong Temple (Chinese: 三寶洞 'three treasures cave') (also known as the Three Buddhas Cave) [2] is a Chinese temple built within a limestone cave and is the oldest and the main cave temple in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. [3]
The caves were used 500 to 900 years ago as a burial place with about 125 carved wooden coffins inside. [3] It was divided into three main caves, namely Agop Sawat (upper cave), Agop Lintanga (middle cave) and Agop Suriba (lower cave). The caves at Agop Sawat and Lintanga contained more than 125 ancient log coffins. [3]
Batu Caves Murugan statue (Tamil: முருகன் சிலை; Bahasa Malaysia: Tugu Dewa Murugga), is a 42.7 metres (140 ft) tall statue of the Hindu god Murugan at Batu Caves in Selangor, Malaysia. [1] [2] It is the tallest statue in Malaysia and the second tallest Murugan statue in the world [3] [4] (after the Kailashnath Mahadev ...
On the territory of today's Afghanistan, Persian-influenced cave temples developed on a large scale in and around the Bamiyan valley with its side valleys Kakrak and Foladi (Koh-i-Baba mountains, since 2nd century, about 20. 000 caves), near Haibak in Bactria (Hazar Sam, since 2nd century, about 200 caves) as well as near Jalalabad (Haddah ...
Sri Subramanyar Temple at the Batu Caves in Malaysia is dedicated to Murugan, who is depicted in a 42.7-meter-high statue at the entrance, one of the largest Murugan statues in the world. [147] [148] There are some other temples in Malaysia such as Balathandayuthapani Temple and Nattukkottai Chettiar Temple, Marathandavar Temple and Kandaswamy ...
The Sri Mahamariamman Temple was founded by K. Thamboosamy Pillai in 1873 and was initially used as a private shrine by the Pillai family. The family threw the temple doors open to the public in the late 1920s and eventually handed the management of the temple over to a board of trustees.
Simud Hitam ("Black Cave") is the more accessible of the two caves, only a few minutes' walk from the entrance building, and it is open to the general public. Its ceiling can reach 40–60 m (130–200 ft) high. It is the source of the less-valuable "black saliva" nests. These contain both feathers and saliva and require cleaning afterwards.