This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery was founded in 1921 in Bishan, Singapore, and rebuilt on a larger scale from the 1980s onward. It is regarded today as Singapore's largest Mahayana Buddhist temple complex, a scale reached through that later rebuilding rather than present from its founding, and the complex has become one of the fixed points of Singapore's Buddhist institutional life in the process.
The monastery is registered as a charity with Singapore's Commissioner of Charities and draws its income chiefly from crematorium and columbarium services, prayer services and donations, a funding base distinct from the direct member giving many congregational bodies rely on. As a registered charity it files annual financial statements under Singapore's charity regulations, held on the Commissioner's Charity Portal.
More than a century after its 1921 founding, the monastery continues to operate at the scale its 1980s rebuilding created, still Singapore's largest Mahayana Buddhist temple complex and still funded chiefly through the same crematorium, columbarium, prayer service and donation income its charity filings describe year after year.