Palace of the Heavenly Happiness or Tianfu Gong house the diety Sea Goddess Mazu (Ma Cho Po) is the oldest and most important to the Hokkien people in the country. Built-in early 1821 it is located along Telok Ayer Street originally facing the sea and had been run by the Hokkien Huay Kuan which is directly opposite the temple and it had been gazetted in 1973 as a national monument. Next to it, you can find the Yu Huang Gong (Temple of the Heavenly Jade Emperor) derive from the former Keng Teck Whay and also among the oldest building which was constructed between 1847 and 1875 using traditional Chinese craft and material incorporating the Min-Nan architectural style from Fujian China and South-East Asian Peranakan elements and was gazetted as a national monument in 2009 and was renamed as Yu Huang Gong which took over by the Taoist Mission of Singapore which operate it as a Taoist temple which follows the Taoism and Chinese beliefs.
