Wat Khmer Palelai Monastery

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Wat Khmer Palelai Monastery is a Cambodian Theravada Buddhist temple located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The monastery was founded in 1986 in a South Philadelphia row house. In 2010, the community acquired a 238,000-square-foot plot of land, where the current temple stands. The temple complex took nearly a decade to complete as the project was funded over time through donations from the local community. [1]

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References

  1. Newhouse, Samuel (Fall 2019). "The Buddhist Traveler in Philadelphia". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

Coordinates: 39°55′39.5″N75°13′09.5″W / 39.927639°N 75.219306°W / 39.927639; -75.219306