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The Bukit Timah Cemetery was a Christian cemetery in use from 1865 to 1907, and derived its name for the road along which it was situated. Land for the cemetery had been purchased from the Honourable East India Company on 22 January 1864. The cemetery was consecrated by Bishop McDougall of Sarawak, and the first burial took place on 15 April 1865.
The Jalan Kubor Cemetery (Jawi: مقبرة شارع القبر) is located across Victoria Street within the Rochor neighbourhood of the Central Region, Singapore. The currently disused cemetery contains over a thousand Muslim burials, including that of the royalty from the Johor Sultanate .
Bukit Brown Cemetery is believed to be the largest Chinese cemetery outside of China and is the burial location of many of Singapore's earliest pioneers. Activists want to conserve Bukit Brown Cemetery and nearby surrounding cemeteries due to their vegetation, wildlife, and heritage displayed by the graves in the cemetery.
The site was once the part of Hindu section of the Bidadari Cemetery before exhumation took place from 2001 to 2006. During the exhuming process of the cemetery, a memorial park known as the Bidadari Garden was established on this site by the National Heritage Board in 2004 to commemorate the history of the Bidadari Cemetery.
Bidadari Cemetery (Malay: Perkuburan Bidadari, lit. Cemetery of the Angels, Chinese: 比达达利坟场) is a defunct cemetery in Singapore.It used to serve the Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sinhalese communities, and accepted burials between 1907 and 1972.
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This is a list of memorials in Singapore: Bukit Batok Memorial [1] The Cenotaph; Civilian War Memorial; Merlion; Elephant statue at the Old Parliament House; Dalhousie Obelisk; Former Indian National Army Monument; Kranji War Memorial; Lim Bo Seng Memorial; Nanyang University Memorial; Raffles' Landing Site Statue; Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial ...
Sep. 4—A burial stone dating to 1794, the oldest in the Middle Village Cemetery in Springfield, received a roadside historical marker Friday, Aug. 30, funded by the private William C. Pomeroy ...