Across the Ord Bridge is the Po Chiak Keng Temple, also known as Tan Si Chong Su, a gazetted national monument constructed between 1876 and 1878 on the site of a shipyard along the former riverbank. Funded by two prominent Fujian Straits-born merchants, Tan Kim Cheng (1829-92) and Tan Beng Swee (1824-84), the temple was built by the Tan clan as their ancestral temple and assembly hall. The temple used to house a boys’ school in one of its wings between 1889 and 1949, and the temple’s administrative committee functioned as a mediator between disputing Hokkien and Teochew boatmen. With its intricately crafted granite columns and lacquered roof brackets, the temple is a fine example of architectural styles found in Southern China temples at that time.