Armenian Church, Singapore
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The Armenian Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, referred to locally as the Armenian Church, is the oldest surviving Christian church in Singapore, located at Hill Street in the Museum Planning A
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The east front of the church has a bowed apse with a pediment supporting a spire. The inscribed date "1835" commemorates the year the church's foundation was laid.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan inside the church, during his state visit to Singapore (2012)
The church's interior showing the altar and nave
Sarkies Brothers
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The Sarkies Brothers, Martin, Tigran, Aviet, and Arshak, were a group of brothers of Armenian ethnicity best known for founding a chain of luxury hotels throughout Southeast Asia. The brothers were bo
Armenian Church, Singapore
…from Bukit Timah-Cavenagh Road cemetery were also moved here. A number of tombstones of prominent Armenians in Singapore, such as members of the Sarkies family of Raffles Hotel fame, Agnes Joaquim who bred Singapore's national flower and Catchick Moses who founded the newspaper Straits Times, are placed here…
Clockwise from top: Arshak, Tigran and Aviet Sarkies
Raffles Hotel
Eastern & Oriental Hotel
Strand Hotel