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Phoh Kiu Ah Seah Teck Chye Siang Tng Church of the Trail highlights Teochew Terrace station Nativity of the

Porridge (5th milestone) Former Simon ROAD SIMON Blessed Virgin Mary Road Market The new Hougang Heritage Trail launched HOUGANG 2 Hougang (6th milestone) AVENUE 2 HOUGANG yesterday is the National Heritage Board’s Tou Mu Masjid St. Paul’s AVENUE 8 Methodist Kung Haji Church Kovan 20th such trail and features 18 sites. station UPPER ROAD HOUGANG Church 1 Yusoff KOVAN Block 25 AVENUE 7

Serangoon 1 HOUGANG TOU MU KUNG station Tua Jia Kar Rainbow UPPER ROAD Neo Kian Guan Block of SERANGOON ROAD UPPER PAYA LEBAR ROAD Confectionery Hougang & Cakes (Block 316)

HOUGANG STREET 21 3 AVENUE 7 Tian Kong & Chee Tong Temple Kancanarama HOUGANG HOUGANG AVENUE 5 Buddhist Temple HOUGANG AVENUE 1

4 LORONG AH SOO Zi Yun Kai Ji Gong The Serangoon HOUGANG AVENUE 3 Khiung Jai • The temple began HOW SUN DRIVE as a shrine in Lim Loh Co-villagers Association village at Au Kang Landmarks of Hougang Institutions of Service fourth milestone in 1902, and is the oldest 5 Ramakrishna HOUGANG AVENUE 1 Architectural Gems Continuation temple in Mission dedicated to the Nine Extended trail of trail route Emperor Gods. Bartley station • Its current building was built in 1921 in a traditional Hokkien architectural style 3 NEO KIAN GUAN CONFECTIONERY & CAKES 5 RAMAKRISHNA MISSION (right). The The mission in Singapore, a branch of the It was gazetted a National Monument on • • • confectionery is Ramakrishna Order of India, was established in 1897 Jan 14, 2005, and remains well known for its famed for its by Swami Vivekananda, the main disciple of grand celebrations during the annual Nine traditional Sri Ramakrishna, and focuses on Emperor Gods festival. Hokkien and fostering spiritual beliefs Teochew pastries, and carrying out social which include service programmes. wedding • The plot of land it 2 CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF confectionery and occupies in Bartley Road THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY special pastries was purchased in 1941. used during Soon after, the mission • The church is the oldest place of religious festivals. built a boys’ home to worship in the area, and it started in an • The business house destitute boys attap structure erected in 1853 that was was rst started affected by the Second later rebuilt in brick. It was then known in in 1932, and named after its founder, a Chinese immigrant, World War. as Church of St Mary and served the who was an apprentice in a traditional confectionery in Nan An, China • It also built a temple on growing Teochew Catholic population. before he moved to Singapore. its Bartley grounds in • In 1901, the present-day Neo-Gothic 1954. The temple is church building was constructed, modelled after the complete with pointed arches and mission’s main temple in ribbed vaults, and was renamed Church West Bengal, and of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 4 THE SERANGOON integrates architectural Mary, as it is known today. KHIUNG JAI features and motifs • Sultan Ibrahim of Johor donated a CO-VILLAGERS from different marble statue (below) of the Immaculate ASSOCIATION religions, such as Conception of Mary to the church in Buddhism and 1946, which still stands in front of the Islam. church today.

• The Hainanese clan association bought its current site at 102 Lorong Ah Soo in 1979, but was of cially registered in 1958. • It served members of the Hainanese community living in Lorong Ah Soo, and at one point in the mid-1900s had 400 members. • The association also nurtured Hainanese culture by setting up the Guang Yi opera troupe in 1964.

Source: NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD PHOTOS: NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD, NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SINGAPORE, GIN TAY STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS