Fu Lu Shou Complex

Fu Lu Shou Complex

福祿壽
Fu Lu Shou Complex in Bugis, Singapore
Location	Rochor, Singapore
Coordinates	1°18′05.8″N 103°51′15.8″E / 1.301611°N 103.854389°E / 1.301611; 103.854389
Address	149 Rochor Road, Singapore 188425
Opening date	1983[1]
No. of stores and services	140
No. of floors	5 (1 basement level)
Website	Official website

Fu Lu Shou Complex is a shopping centre built in 1983 located at Bugis, Singapore that specialises in Daoist and Buddhist religious paraphernalia.^[1]

Background

Like other Singapore malls which cater to a specific commercial market, the Fu Lu Shou Complex gathered together many tenants selling similar items; here tenants purvey items such as lucky stones and gems, ceramic religious icons, incense and so on. The mall is named after the Daoist concept of Fu Lu Shou, meaning, respectively, good fortune (fu, 福), prosperity (lu, 祿) and longevity (shou, 壽), clearly signalling its specialisation to consumers.

While it houses many solely commercial ventures, the Fu Lu Shou Complex is particularly notable in that it also contains functioning religious shrines integrated into certain stores. In their usage of the complex as a source of religious wares and as a site of religious practice, the tenants and consumers here blur the line between mall and temple. Thus, in visiting the Fu Lu Shou Complex, Chinese religion practitioners can obtain both religious paraphernalia and blessings from propitiated deities.

Gallery

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  Buddhist icons
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  Indoor Phra Phrom Shrine.

References

External links

• Map of Fu Lu Shou Complex
• Fu Lu Shou Complex Website

This page was last edited on 13 March 2023, at 09:21