GCI Places

Curated collection · Architecture & design

One Street, Three Faiths

Three gazetted places of worship within a few hundred metres on South Bridge Road in Chinatown, which together complicate the idea that the district was ever monocultural.

Assembled and reviewed by Global City Intelligence on 2026-09-07. The order below is a suggested route, not a ranking.

The route

  1. Sri Mariamman Temple

    Chinatown

    The oldest Hindu temple in Singapore, founded in 1827.

    The tiered gopuram of Sri Mariamman Temple, covered in painted figures, in Singapore's Chinatown
    The gopuram tower of Sri Mariamman Temple on South Bridge Road. Chainwit. · CC-BY-SA-4.0

  2. Masjid Jamae

    Chinatown

    Built from 1826 by Tamil Muslim traders, a minute further north.

    Photograph of Masjid Jamae in Singapore
    Masjid Jamae along South Bridge Road , Singapore . LilMudPie. · CC-BY-2.0

  3. Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum

    Chinatown

    Completed in 2007 in a deliberately historicist idiom, at the southern end of the same street.

    The red and gold multi-tiered facade of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in Singapore's Chinatown
    The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple seen from the Maxwell MRT entrance. Chainwit. · CC-BY-4.0

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