Already it was upheld by a little slope. Presently the slope has been leveled and formed into a high rise - Wisma Ansar.
The Johor Old Temple is said to be worked by a Johor Bahru big shot, Tan Sook Ni. There is in any case, no single encryption on any headstone or anything demonstrating a proof on this issue.
There are two things in the sanctuary which show its age. One of them is the billboard which bears the date of 1870 and the other a bronze ringer encoded 1875.
Johor Bahru is a transitory society. The primary vernacular gathering came here was Teochew. The convergence was trailed by other vernacular gatherings. The 5 noteworthy tongue gatherings are Teochew, Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese and Hainanese.
Ngee Heng Company lead the Johor Bahur Chinese society. Under its authority, the diverse tongue bunches developed kinship, collaboration and disposed of contrasts.
Ngee Heng Company took up the part of administration of the Johor Old Temple. Despite the fact that the 5 gods are not the first divinities of the tongue bunches, they are co-revered by every one of them and every god was typically doled out to one lingo bunch.
The Johor Bahru Chinese shared one single graveyard. Together, the Chinese Society constructs and backings one Chinese school to be specific Fong Yew School.
This framed the well known trademark among the Johor Bahru Chinese i.e. "One Temple, One Hill and One School".
Chingay Procession
The Johor Old Temple Committee will sort out parade on the twentieth to 22nd day of the primary month of each lunar schedule whereby every one of the divinities of the Johor Old Temple will be exchanged out of the sanctuary and moved to a Resting Temple around 3 km away.
At a young hour in the morning on the twentieth of the lunar new year, the admirers will accumulate before the principle passage of the sanctuary holding joysticks sitting tight for the pictures of the gods to be exchanged out of the sanctuary. At the point when the picture of the divinities were being exchanged out, the admirers applaud and offer their joysticks to the gods.
The pictures of the divinities riding on car seats will be swung left and right by the transporters in the wake of leaving the Johor Old Temple. The parade is joined by lion move and mythical beast move. Obviously, Chinese drums will go with the parade the distance to the Resting Temple. The devoted admirers conveying joysticks will stroll in the parade.
The festival achieves the peak on the second day i.e. the 21st day of the lunar new year, whereby the pictures of the gods will put into parade again at night. The parade begins from the Resting Temple, moving along Jalan Yahya Awal, Jalan Ayer Molek, coastline, Jalan Wong Ah Fook and the distance back to the Resting Temple. The separation is around 8 km. Close to 300,000 individuals take an interest in the parade these days. It is in reality an incredible occasion in Johor Bahru.
A phase will be set up before the Johor Bahru City Square. Noteworthy welcomed visitors will be situated here to watch the chingay parade. It is the center of the parade where different exhibitions like lion moves, winged serpent moves, stilt strolling, drums, exemplary musics, kongfu, social moves, coasts and so on will be introduced before the visitors and group of onlookers at Jalan Wong Ah Fook.
On the 22nd of the lunar new year, every one of the gods will be exchanged back to the old sanctuary by having another parade in the morning.