Wat
Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple (Voorhees)
វត្តព្រះពុទ្ធរង្សី
Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple (វត្តព្រះពុទ្ធរង្សី) is the Voorhees Township, New Jersey, site of the Philadelphia Wat Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple.[1][2]
History
His Holiness Sin Wat Sakyamuni founded Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple on February 13, 2003. The temple later grew to two locations, in Philadelphia and in Voorhees, on Haddonfield-Berlin Road.[1]
Many members of the Philadelphia temple came from South Jersey, which led the order to expand across the Delaware River. In 2014 it asked the Voorhees zoning board for variances to build on a site of about 6.9 hectares (17 acres). After nearly two years of paperwork, construction began in July 2016, with an architect from New Jersey, an artist from Cambodia and some local volunteers among the builders.[3]
In 2017 four monks lived in a house on the property and used a garage for meditation. Building depended on donations and had no set completion date. The plan called for a gateway and a path lined with statues of seven-headed dragons, a golden fountain, a two-story hall for meditation and the morning and evening chants, a ceremony hall for meals and celebrations and meditation gardens with statues drawn from the Buddhist scriptures. Sculptures of the four sights, an old man, a sick man, a corpse and a monk, already stood on the grounds.[3]
Religious life
As of 2026, five monks lived at the Voorhees site.[2]
Associations
Khmer Buddhist Humanitarian Association
(associated organization).[4]
Organization details: Khmer Buddhist Humanitarian Association.
The association's directory entry gives both the Philadelphia address and the Voorhees address.
See also
- Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple, the Philadelphia temple
- Pchum Ben, Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple (October 2026)
- Wat Samakkidhararam, a Khmer Wat in Camden, New Jersey
- All organizations
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple, About (archived July 20, 2025)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pat Sophal, 2026 Directory of Wat Khmer or Cambodian Buddhist Temple in the USA (August 6, 2026)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Voorhees Sun, Voorhees' first Cambodian Buddhist temple works towards fruition (September 29, 2017)
- ↑ BuddhaNet, World Buddhist Directory: United States of America (undated)