singaporecity360° Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple
Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple stands at 141 Serangoon Road, in the middle of Little India, and is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Singapore — built in 1881 by Bengali labourers around a shrine that had occupied the site since the 1850s.
One thing to know first
Assume a long midday closure and come in the morning or the late afternoon. Every comparable Hindu temple in Singapore shuts for several hours around noon — but this temple publishes no hours at all, so we cannot promise you any arrival time. Phone 6293 4634 if the trip depends on it.
It is dedicated to Kali, the fierce mother-goddess, whose image sits in the main sanctum flanked by her sons Ganesha and Murugan. Entry is free; you leave your shoes at the rack by the door, and modest dress is expected. Like most Hindu temples it shuts for a few hours in the early afternoon and reopens for the evening, so the doors are not open right through the day. The gopuram over the entrance — the tiered tower crowded with painted figures — is worth a look from the pavement even when the temple is closed, and Tekka Centre's food hall is a five-minute walk back down the road.
The temple sits roughly midway between Little India and Farrer Park MRT stations on the North-East Line; from Little India it is about a five-minute walk north up Serangoon Road, but if you are coming from the north, Farrer Park works out marginally closer.
The temple keeps split hours, so the usual mistake is turning up in the early afternoon to a locked door — go in the morning before it closes, or from late afternoon into the evening. Tuesdays and Fridays are the days devotees particularly associate with the goddess, so those evenings are the busiest and the most active to see, with oil lamps, bells and offerings rather than a quiet hall.
Rain, heat, and what to do about it
Live readings and forecasts from NEA. Four days is the limit — past that, nobody is forecasting, they are showing you an average.
Southwest Monsoon
June to September
Short, sharp early-morning showers and occasional squall lines. Drier overall than the northeast wet phase.
The other good window. Rain tends to arrive early and clear, leaving usable afternoons. This is also when haze can occur, which is worth checking rather than assuming.
Plan your Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple stop
Straight-line distance from the three places a visitor has already heard of.
2.8km
north
2.3km
east
16km
west
Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple, in every light
Nearby, on foot
In Little India — close enough to collect on the same trip out.
Contains information from Tourist Attractions accessed on 2026-08-01 from data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.