https://padlet.com/limyunqian2311/Street_Names_2311 Made with serendipity en-us 2016-06-07 03:59:19 UTC 2025-11-15 02:11:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/116975373/1edf721d74ffe0a38175927990adfc953c850539/389495acbd16ca41eadfb5c091f210c0.jpg limyunqian2311 https://padlet.com/limyunqian2311/Street_Names_2311/wish/113883480 Chinatown]]> 2016-06-07 04:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/limyunqian2311/Street_Names_2311/wish/113883480 limyunqian2311 https://padlet.com/limyunqian2311/Street_Names_2311/wish/113884030 As the largest ethnic group in Singapore is Chinese, Chinatown is considerably less of an enclave than it once was. However, the precinct does retain significant historical and cultural significance. Large sections of it have been declared national heritage sites officially designated for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
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Singapore's Chinatown is known as Niu che shui (Chinese: 牛车水; pinyin: Niú chē shuǐ; literally: "cow car water") in Mandarin Chinese, Gu Chia Chwi in Hokkien and Ngau-che-shui in Cantonese - all of which mean "bullock water-cart" - and Kreta Ayer in Malay, which means "water cart". This is due to the fact that Chinatown's water supply was principally transported by animal-driven carts in the 19th century. It should be noted that while these names are sometimes used for referring to Chinatown in general, they actually refer to the area of Kreta Ayer Road.
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Keong Saik Road was once a red light area in Chinatown in the 1960s, but has since been transformed into a street with many boutique hotels.

Wang Dayuan visited Singapore (then called Temasek or Dan Ma Xi) in 1330 and recorded that there was a Chinese community.

Under the Raffles Plan of Singapore, the area originally was a division of colonial Singapore where Chinese immigrants tended to reside. Although as Singapore grew, Chinese immigrants settled in other areas of the island-city, Chinatown became overcrowded within decades of Singapore's founding in 1819 and remained such until many residents were relocated at the initiation of Singapore's governmental Housing Development Board in the 1960s.
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Mosque Street is named after Jamae Mosque, located on the South Bridge Road end of the street.

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple

The street architecture of Chinatown's buildings, the shophouses especially, combine different elements of baroque architecture and Victorian architecture and do not have a single classification. Many of them were built in the style of painted ladies, and have been restored in that fashion. These styles result in a variety of different colours of which pastel is most dominant. Trengganu Street, Pagoda Street and Temple Street are such examples of this architecture, as well as development in Upper Cross Street and the houses in Club Street. Boat Quay was once a slave market along the Singapore River, Boat Quay has the most mixed-style shophouses on the island.
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