2620 Alumcreek Drive
Columbus, OH 43207
Phone: 614.449.1492

Wat Brahma Vihara (or Wat Prohm Vihear in Khmer)
2318 Quebec Road, FL. 3
Cincinnati, OH 45214
Phone: 513.471.6780

8609 Denison Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102
Phone: 216.939.0228

Abbot Ven. Viriya Dhammo Puoch Kandaal
2738 Marion Avenue
Bronx, New York City, NY 10458-3802
Phone: 718.563.5456
Blog: http://jotanaram.wordpress.com

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Asian-American Week: Bronx House Provides Cambodian Community With A Place To Pray

21 May 2012, By: Shazia Khan, Bronx.NY1.com

To mark Asian-American Heritage Week on NY1, the station revisits communities it has covered over the past two decades. NY1’s Shazia Khan filed the following report on Cambodian New Yorkers in the Bronx.

On a residential block in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, a two-story house serves as a house of worship. The Khmer Buddhist Society is a home away from home for many Cambodian-American Buddhists living in the borough.

“We live in the Bronx and we want to meet each other in the Bronx,” says worshipper Davin Hun.

 The 2010 U.S. census finds 1,430 Cambodians living in the Bronx, about half of the city’s Cambodian population. Ten yeas before that, the Bronx had 1,082 Cambodians.

About 200 Cambodian refugees founded the Khmer Buddhist Society in 1984, the first of its kind in the city and the only one in the borough.

The house, which serves as many as 300 people, is a community center, temple and monastery. Resident monk Kandaal Puoch, who last spoke with NY1 in 2005, says the space has expanded in the last seven years, but it is still not large enough to accommodate the community.

“When we have a ceremony it is hard to sit down, you see. This hall is too small,” says Puoch. “However, they come here and they try hard to sit down and listen to the Buddhist monk chanting and study Buddhism and Cambodian cultures.”

Continuing cultural traditions could not be more vital to a community that survived a genocide in its homeland.

“Imagine just being resettled here from a refugee camp and being thrown in the middle of the Bronx, the cultural vertigo, the dislocation. And this is a haven,” says photographer Pete Pin, who has been documenting Cambodian communities across the country.

Sanbo Som, who lost his siblings in the genocide, has lived in the Bronx since 1982.

“When I meet my friends or my people who come from Cambodia I’m very happy,” says Som.

Puoch, who is searching almost every day for an affordable new space, wants to make sure his community members will always have a piece of their homeland right near their homes in the Bronx.

Wat Buddharatanaram
18 Laser Street
Rochester, NY 14621
Phone: 716.226.4275

Abbot Ven. Samvarasilo Long Mean
26 Rugby Road
Brooklyn, NY 11226
Telephone: 718.856.8918
E-mail: wsd@watt-samakki-dhammikaram.org
Website: www.watt-samakki-dhammikaram.org

វត្ដសាមគ្គីធម្មិការាម
វត្ដខ្មែរនៅបុរីនូយ៉ក រដ្ឋនូយ៉ក សហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក
Wat Khmer in New York City, New York.

Abbot Ven. Ñanasaro Moeng Sang
2925 220th Street
East Hampton, MN 55031
Phone: 651.463.3101
Website: www.wattmunisota.org

វត្ដធម្មវិសុទ្ធិការាម

Wat Dhamma Visuddhikaram

Abbot Ven. Chhan Aun, age 60 as of B.E.2554, A.D.2010 Year of the Tiger
4462  29th Street Southeast
Rochester, MN 55904
Telephone: 507.281.4808

Oregon Cambodian Buddhist Society
Established in B.E.2528 A.D.1984
Abbot Ven. Kittisaro Tan Bhoga
19940 S.W. Stafford Road
West Linn, OR 97068
Phone: 503.638.3700

Abbot Ven.Vajiro Kim Cang
8180 Windsor Drive
Mechanicsville, VA 23111
Phone: 804-730-3946
Fax: 804.730.8699

វត្ដធម្មរង្សី ឈ្មោះដើមវត្ដកម្ពុជាក្រោម
Wat Kampuchea Krom, Inc. (Wat Dhammarangsi)
ព្រះចៅអធិការ ភិក្ខុ ថិរសីលោ គឹម អ៊ុក  Bhikkhu Thirasilo Ut Kim, Chief Monk
10505 Kettle Run Road
Nokesville, VA 20181
Tel: 571.394.1762, 703.593.2174, 703-594-2174
ប្រធានគណៈកម្មាធិការវត្ដ ថាច់ កុសល
អាចារ្យវត្ដ ថាច់ ចន្ទជាភិរម្យ

Wat Dhammarangsi in Virginia.
Wat Kampuchea Krom in Virginia.

1848 HWY CT MM
Oregon, WI 53575
Phone: 608.835.8136

Abbot Ven. Sovannathero Kim Cheakosal
3405 Federal Street
Camden, NJ 08105-2633
Phone: 856.966.0956
E-mail: kruone2595@yahoo.com

វត្ដសាមគ្គីធរារាម
វត្ដខ្មែរនៅរដ្ឋនូជើស៊ី សហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក
Wat Khmer in New Jersey.

6533 Rock Spring Road
Lithonia, GA 30058
Phone: 770.482.5563

5330 Riverdale Road
College Park, GA 30349
Phone: 770.996.5688

2725 35th Avenue
St. Petersburg, FL 33713
Phone: 727.522.7801

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4057 Hunt Street
Jacksonville, FL 32254
Phone: 904.389.1034

4540 Clinton Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32207
Phone: 904.739.8137

1258 W. Argle Street
Chicago, IL 60640
Phone: 773.878.8226

Abbot Ven. Dhamma Panna Ouk Bunthoeun
4716 North Winthrop Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640
Phone: 773.989.0969
E-mail: kbsmetta@gmail.com
Website: www.kbsmetta.com