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Sultan's Mosque |
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Shortly after he arrived in Singapore in January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles purchased the right to erect a trading post from the two local authorities, the Temenggong (a Malay title meaning “security authority”) Abdul Rahman and Prince Hussein. Raffles’ employer, the British East India Company, saw to it that Hussein was made Sultan of Johore. In the ensuing years, Sultan Hussein and his family and court moved from the Riau Islands to Singapore. Five years after Raffles’ landing, the population had grown from 150 to more than 10,000. From 1824 to 1826, the Sultan had a mosque built beside his palace in the Kampong Glam quarter. In 1924, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the mosque’s founding, it was resolved to rebuild it; plans by architect Denis Santry (of the Swan and McLaren company) were realized by 1926. In 1993, an additional building was added. The Masjid Sultan was declared a national monument in 1975. Address:
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