Tua Pek Kong Temple (Chinese: 美里大伯公廟)[2] is a Chinese temple situated right next to the Miri Fish Market in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia.
[1][3] The local Chinese residents believed the epidemic was caused by evil spirits roaming around the area.
A Chinese man named Chan Chak began calling a monk to appease the spirits with a spirit-pacifying ritual being carried out near the Miri River and with an altar being placed there.
[3] When the epidemic began to subside following the ritual, the local Chinese residents constructed a temple near the river to revere Tua Pek Kong in gratitude to the latter in 1913.
[1] The temple remains to this day having survived the Japanese bombings on the town during World War II.