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Bras Basah (Chinese: 百胜, Tamil: பிராஸ்) is a district located in the Museum Planning Area of the Central Area of Singapore. Bras Basah ( Modern Spelling : Beras Basah) means "wet rice" in Malay [2] [3] [4] – beras means harvested rice with husk removed, [5] and basah means wet. [6]
Hidden in Bras Basah Complex is Hop Around Bistro, a craft beer shop and bistro. This is the perfect place to have a laidback hangout sesh with friends over unique and delicious craft beers from ...
Mar 7, 2017 · Bras Basah is Malay for “wet rice”, which was once laid out to dry on the banks of the Bras Basah River. Bugis Street was named after Indonesia’s sea-faring Bugis community, which traded with local merchants at the site in days of yore. Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, chose the site to build a settlement.
- Singapore Art Museum
- Old Bungalows on Waterloo Street
- Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple
- Albert Street Markets
- Liang Seah Street
- Shophouses on Purvis Street
- Raffles Hotel
- Chijmes
- National Library
- National Design Centre
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The Singapore Art Museum (Website, Tripadvisor Reviews*, closed for refurbishment until 2023) is by Bras Basah MRT station. This museum focuses on contemporary art from Southeast Asia. The collection is housed in a gorgeous colonial building that used to be a Catholic boys’ school, hence the religious overtones. Once reopened after refurbishment, t...
On Waterloo Street you will see a synagogue (Maghain Aboth Synagogue), a church (Church of Saints Peter & Paul), a Hindu temple (Sri Krishnan Temple) and a Buddhist temple (Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple) all within 400 m of each other. There are also several colourful old colonial bungalows, now dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers. Most of the b...
Directions: Continue along Waterloo Street and you’ll soon meet a busy pedestrian street, Albert Street. Head to the right.
During the daytime, every day of the week, there are many little stalls along this street selling everything from incense sticks to fruit and vegetables. Further down Albert Street you’ll reach a covered area, known as Bugis Street Mall. This section of the street has an outdoor bazaar vibe and there are shops selling clothes along with many snacks...
Restaurants and shophouses line this street. It becomes busy in the evenings, especially on Fridays and Saturdays. It’s a great place to have a bite to eat. You can see Suntec City Mall towering in the distance, a huge shopping centre with a cinema and many more restaurants. Directions: At the end of the street turn right on Beach Road. Cross Middl...
Directions: At the top of Purvis Street, turn left and you’ll almost immediately see the elegant facade of Raffles Hotel. Head to the inner courtyards or walk around the outside.
Raffles Hotel (Website, Booking Reviews*) started off as a 10-room hotel occupying a bungalow by the beach. Today it’s still on Beach Road, but land reclamation means the sea is now over 2 km away. The main building opened at the turn of the century, in 1899, with the first electric lights in the whole of Singapore. After low points in the 1930s gr...
Chijmes (which stands for Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Middle Education School) is a historic complex that started out as a Catholic convent in 1852. Its focus today is a Gothic-style church, now used for concerts and weddings – the wedding scene from Crazy Rich Asians was filmed here. Around the church are many restaurants and bars, a pleasant...
Directions: Cross over Victoria Street to the church. The Portuguese Mission built St Joseph’s Church, a Catholic church, in the early 1900s. It still has services in Latin today! Directions: On the corner next to the church is the next stop.
Directions: Head left on busy Middle Road, past the little yellow church, and then right on Bencoolen Street. Directions: Continue past the bakery and immediately left on pedestrian Albert Street again. On your left you’ll pass the fancy-looking Lasalle College of the Arts, a centre of arts and design for university students. Directions: Keep going...
Explore Bras Basah, a historic district in Singapore, with this walking trail. Discover temples, museums, markets, shophouses and more attractions along the way.
Mar 10, 2022 · Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) is a living representation of a modern city that thrives on its vibrant and energetic creative communities while also treasuring the heritage of Singapore's past. BBB is home to art schools, museums, galleries, temples, churches, and a variety of lifestyle clusters and events.
Street Hawkers of Old Bras Basah From the pre-war years until the late 1970s, the streets of Bras Basah, like many parts of the city, were lined with street hawkers. One of Singapore’s most valuable heritage traditions, food hawking has been around since the early 1800s, a livelihood for early immigrants of the island.
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Bras Basah is one of the oldest districts in Singapore. With buildings both old and new lining manicured and landscaped streets as old as the island’s modern history, Bras Basah reflects Singapore’s unique identity as a multicultural society that thrives on its energetic future and vibrant past.
