Kelenteng Boen Bio, Surabaya — Attraction in Surabaya

Klenteng Boen Bio (文廟, Wén Miào)

Confucious | Gus Dur | Cultural Heritage

At the beginning, this Confucianism temple is built in Kapasan Dalam street, 1883 by 2 founder Go Tiek Lie and Lo Toen Siong.

For more representative place, they did a restoration in 1906 and opened on 27 Oct 1906 at this current place.

Gus Dur, Indonesian 4th president, issued president decree no 6/2000 about retraction of president instruction no 14/1967 (Chinese restriction of religion, belief and cultural), already gave Chinese people a freedom (include Confucianism who usually are Chinese).

2001 Chinese New Year (CNY) become facultative national day and 2002 in Megawati (Indonesian 5th president) era, CNY became national holiday.

Therefore for a respect, you could see Gus Dur photo in the temple top corner.

In February 2017 to celebrate CNY, Pos Indonesia with collaboration with INTI (Pengurus Perhimpunan Indonesia Tionghoa) also issued stamp with 12 Chinese zodiac in this temple.

One of Confucius teaching is 八德 (Bā Dé) - 8 Virtues that consist of : 孝 xiào - filial piety 悌 tì - respect 忠 zhōng - loyalty 信 xìn - trust 礼 lǐ - manner 义 yì - righteousness 廉 lián - honest 耻 chǐ -...

There are only 3 Boen Bio Temple (klenteng) in the world, 1 in China, 1 in Japan, and the last one is here, Surabaya. Established since 1883, this temple is a silent witness to the defense of the triumph of Khong Hu Chu in Surabaya and is the only temple specifically for the Khong Hu Chu religion in Southeast Asia. The chinese architecture characteristic is very authentic, done by craftmen from China. Every shape and element have their own meaning, they could be represent the prayers. Another historical place in Surabaya.

Still active until today, even in this pandemic, they are still open to public but limited to avoid the crowd, and still running some...

Terimakasih kepada pengurus kelenteng yang memperbolehkan komunitas Pernak-pernik Surabaya Lama untuk berkunjung dan berkesempatan mendokumentasi gedung kelenteng dan mendengarkan keunikan dari kelenteng Boen Bio. Berikut penjelasan sedikit sejarah klenteng Boen Bio: klenteng Boen Bio didirikan tahun Kaksin 2434 atau masehi 1883, dari literatur majalah Gentrika no. 24 disebutkan pendirian klenteng atas ikhtiar dari Go Tik Lie dan Lo Toen Siong yang mengajukan permintaan sebidang tanah di Kapasan seluas 500m2 kepada mayor The Boen Ke yang ternyata dikabulkan. Berkat ketekunan usaha mengumpulkan uang dari jemaat maupun dermawan akhirnya terkumpul 11.316 gulden. Pembangunan klenteng melibatkan tukang dari tiongkok. Setelah berdiri diberi nama Boen Tjhiang Soe. Pada tahun Kaksin 2455 atau tahun masehi 1904 klenteng dimajukan menghadap jalan Kapasan atas saran Khong Yoe Wie, 6 rumah yg didepan dibongkar untuk dibangun klenteng seluas 629 m2, dua tahun kemudian klenteng selesai dibangun, dimuka terdapat 4 pilar naga, 5 pintu besar yang bagian tengah terukir huruf Ban...