Mosque
Sultan Mosque
3 Muscat St, Singapore 198833
Landmark nineteenth-century mosque with golden domes whose bases are lined with thousands of donated soy sauce bottle ends.
This guide to the Sultan Mosque in Singapore's Kampong Glam quarter opens with a fundraising drive after the original 1920s building came down, when wealthy merchants gave cash but poorer families could only offer what they had at home. It follows what architect Denis Santry of Swan and Maclaren did with that gesture, and reaches back further still, to 1826 and Sultan Hussein Shah's request to Sir Stamford Raffles for a mosque beside his palace. Look for the decorative band circling the base of each golden dome as you walk the courtyard.
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