Masjid Jamae (Chulia)

This guide to Masjid Jamae in Singapore explains how Tamil Muslim traders known as the Chulias raised a mosque on South Bridge Road by 1826, then hired George Drumgoole Coleman, Singapore's first trained architect, to rebuild it in a style that fuses a South Indian gateway with Neoclassical prayer halls. You'll hear how the community named it Periya Palli, Big Mosque, in a district that was mostly Chinese. Stand at the gate and take in both traditions meeting at once.