ALOR SETAR: Thousands of devotees gave a grand send-off to the King of Hell effigy (Tai Su Yeah in Hokkien) which made it to the Malaysian Book of Records as the largest in the country at the Tow Boo Keong Temple in Mergong on Tuesday (Aug 9) near here.
ALOR SETAR: A giant effigy of the King of Hell (Tai Su Yeah in Hokkien) made it to the Malaysian Book of Records for being the largest in the country.Standing at 12.98m (or the height of a four-storey building), this fearsome Chinese deity, with a cobalt visage and a pair of long fangs jutting out from its lower jaw, took Gan Kheng Leong, 62, a month to build.
LAST WEEK, it was claimed that an effigy of the King of Hell, or Tai Su Yeah in Hokkien at a temple near Alor Setar, Kedah, is the largest of this deity made in Malaysia to date.