The Buddhist Temple

The Old Buddhist Temple Building

After meeting Dee Rathod who was one of the first of the Sri Lankan community to set up here and she helped her parents build the Buddha by hand, I'm even more intrigued.
She told me she can't spend time alone in front of the statue as she has been paranoid since she was a child, that she put the left foot on the wrong way round. I can report that this
is not the case! : )

The building was completed in 1927 and has 2 rooms, a sitting room ( where I have sat many of an evening using the internet, drinking tea and chatting with Panna and his Sri Lankan friends )
kitchen, store room and bathroom. In the days when this was built the country was called Tanganyika which was a British protectorate and got her independence  on 9th December 1961.
Yn 1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar united to become Tanzania. The Sri Lankan community used this hall for the social meetings, religious services and other activities.

The Shrine Room and Pagoda was built in 1956.
In Buddhism they have three most venerated and sacred things - the first one is the Pagoda/Chetiya/Dagaba, the second is the Bodhi Tree and the third is Buddha's statue/shrine room.

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