Heritage Building - Telok Ayer Market 直落亚逸巴刹 (Lau Pa Sat 老巴刹)(2020 0922)
Location 18 Raffles Quay, Singapore
Coordinates 1°16′50″N 103°51′01″ECoordinates: 1°16′50″N 103°51′01″E
Completed 1 March 1894
Getting There:
MRT Telok Ayer (DT18)/Downtown (DT17)
It was first built in 1824 as a fish market on the waterfront serving the people of early colonial Singapore and rebuilt in 1838. It was then relocated and rebuilt at the present location in 1894.
The market remains one of the oldest Victorian structure in South-East Asia and one of the first structure built in pre-fabricated cast iron in Asia. It is also the only remaining market left that served the residents in the central district of early Singapore.
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