No procession for Tow Boo Kong Temple

Say a prayer: Devotees praying while maintaining physical distancing at the Macallum Street Tow Boh Keong Kew Ong Tai Tay Temple. — LIEW JIA XIAN/The Star

BUTTERWORTH: For the second time in its 50-year history, the Tow Boo Kong Temple in Jalan Raja Uda, Butterworth, is not organising procession for thousands of devotees to send off the Nine Emperor Gods. Temple chairman Datuk Khor Wan Tat said only two temple advisers and a few committee members would take part in the ritual to send off the gods from Pantai Bersih in Bagan Ajam tomorrow.

“We have to call off the procession to prevent the spread of Covid-19.