Tiong Bahru
The oldest housing estate in Singapore, built from the 1920s by the colonial Singapore Improvement Trust. Its low, curving Art Deco blocks now hold bakeries, independent shops and cafés, and its market is known for its hawker food.
- Where
- Singapore, Singapore
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 1.2861, 103.8294
Get the Tiong Bahru stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Tiong Bahru. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Singapore volume with your photos and a note.
Near Tiong Bahru
Chinatown 1.7 km
The old Chinese quarter of Singapore, streets of restored shophouses running up from South Bridge Road to Ann Siang Hill. Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim places of worship stand within a few streets of each other, and its hawker centres are among the city's best known.
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum 1.7 km
A Chinese Buddhist temple in Chinatown, built in the style of the Tang dynasty and opened in 2007. It is named for the tooth relic of the Buddha kept in a golden stupa on an upper floor, and its rooftop garden holds a large prayer wheel.
Sri Thendayuthapani Temple 1.8 km
A temple to Murugan on Tank Road, built by the Chettiar community in 1859 and among the most important Hindu monuments in Singapore. It is the end point of the Thaipusam procession, when devotees carrying kavadis walk here from Little India.
Sri Mariamman Temple 1.8 km
Singapore's oldest Hindu temple, founded in 1827 on South Bridge Road in Chinatown and built in the Dravidian style. Its gopuram is crowded with painted figures of gods, and each year it hosts the Theemithi festival, when devotees walk across burning coals.
Mount Faber 1.8 km
A 94-metre hill above Telok Blangah, once named after it, looking out over the harbour towards Sentosa. Trails climb it from HarbourFront and the Southern Ridges, and the cable car across to the island starts here.
Jamae Mosque 1.8 km
A mosque on South Bridge Road in Chinatown, built in the 1830s by Muslim immigrants from South India and one of the earliest Indian Muslim mosques in the country. Its eclectic gateway, with twin minaret towers, has made it a national monument since 1974.
Maxwell Food Centre 1.8 km
A hawker centre at the corner of Maxwell Road and South Bridge Road, on the edge of Chinatown. It is one of the city's best known for Hainanese chicken rice, and the queues at its most famous stalls form well before lunch.
Southern Ridges 1.9 km
Ten kilometres of trails linking a chain of parks along Singapore's southern ridge, from Kent Ridge Park to HarbourFront. Much of the walk runs on raised walkways and bridges among the treetops, including the wave-shaped Henderson Waves.
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Questions
Where is Tiong Bahru?
Tiong Bahru is in Singapore, Singapore. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Chinatown (1.7 km), Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum (1.7 km), Sri Thendayuthapani Temple (1.8 km).
How do I get the Tiong Bahru stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Tiong Bahru and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Singapore volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Tiong Bahru before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Singapore volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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