Singapore Essential — Chinatown: The Neighborhood That Built a City

The Experience

Discover the remarkable people behind Singapore's Chinatown: migrant housing, Hindu and Muslim pioneers, Buddhist tradition, markets, lost lanes, conserved streets, and the old harbor.

Your Route

1. 1Pagoda Street & Chinatown Heritage Centre — A Room for a New Life
2. 2Jamae Mosque — The Traders Inside Chinatown
3. 3Sri Mariamman Temple — A Merchant Builds a Refuge
4. 4Buddha Tooth Relic Temple — A New Building, An Old Vocabulary
5. 5Sago Street — The Lane of Last Days
6. 6Chinatown Complex — A City Served on a Plate
7. 7Ann Siang Hill — The Price of a Beautiful Past
8. 8Thian Hock Keng — When the Sea Reached the Temple
9. 9Former Nagore Dargah — The Shoreline of Many Faiths

Start point

Pagoda Street & Chinatown Heritage Centre — A Room for a New Life