This Chinese temple along Ang Mo Kio Street 61 houses three temples – Ji Fu Gong (集福宫), Hua Tang Fu (华堂府) and Long Quan Yan (龍泉岩)– all of which hailed from villages in Yio Chu Kang.
It is unclear when Ji Fu Gong was originally established. However, there are two artefacts, a sedan and a tablet, dated 1918, indicating the year in which the temple and opera stage were rebuilt. One of the deities, Lord Xiao, was said to be particularly effective in ensuring a good return in farming. Pig farmers, especially, would bring ailing pigs to ask for healing and to request protection over their herds whenever swine flu struck. During festivals, it was common to see over a thousand pigs and pigs’ heads as offerings, together with chickens, ducks etc, by farmers to the deity.
Hua Tang Fu is said to have begun in 1918 when immigrants of the surname Shi brought along the statues of their patron deities from their hometown in Shan Mei village, Anxi county, Fujian province, China and installed them in Bukit Ho Swee. Later, many members of the Shi family settled in Yio Chu Kang, where they established a temple to house the statues.
As for Long Quan Yan, it was formerly located along Yio Chu Kang Track 24 (defunct), an area known locally as Lao Pah (Hokkien: Old plantation). The temple began in the 1930s, when an immigrant from Nan An county, Fujian province, came to Singapore bearing the statue of the deity Fa Zhu Gong and installed it in his residence. A temple was constructed in the 1940s and an opera stage erected in 1952.
In the 1970s, the government began acquiring the land around Yio Chu Kang for redevelopment and most of the villagers were resettled in Hougang and Ang Mo Kio. The three temples combined in 1978 to form Chu Sheng Temple, which name means a “temple where deities gather”. The temple building at Ang Mo Kio was completed in 1981 and has undergone a few rounds of renovation and extensions since. Today, Chu Sheng Temple is also active in providing social welfare services and community work.