Bah Soon Pah, formerly along Bah Soon Pah Road was one of the places migrants settled down in and formed communities. As conflicts were inevitable in a community, during the 1930s, the villagers in Bah Soon Pah proposed to build a temple which would assume the role of a mediator.
This proposal was supported by Lim Nee Soon, who owned rubber plantations at Bah Soon Pah. He donated $100 and 1.5 acres of land for the temple. Completed in 1934, the temple was named ‘Wah Sua Temple’ after Lim Nee Soon. ‘Wah’ was a character from Lim Nee Soon’s other name, Wah Soon, and ‘Sua’ means ‘hill’. Traditionally, Chinese males would adopt another name when they came of age, or when they embarked on another phase in life.
Today, Lim Nee Soon is also remembered in the two couplets at the entrance of the temple. The first characters of the couplets make up ‘Wah Soon’. The temple relocated here in 1987.