William Fitzjames Oldham
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William Fitzjames Oldham was a British-American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and missionary bishop for South Asia. He distinguished himself as a missionary, an author and a church official
Oldham and his wife, Marie Augusta Mulligan
Oldham with other members of the Opium Commission
The Methodist Church in Singapore is the church that Methodists in Singapore belong to. The Church has 46 churches island-wide with around 45,000 members and is the largest mainline Protestant denomin
Wesley Methodist Church was initiated in February 1885. The church is sited on Fort Canning Hill.
Miss Sophia Blackmore (1857-1945) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore. She help found the Methodist Girls' School in August 1887 and the Fairfield Methodist Schools in 1888. She was also closely associated with the founding of Kampong Kapor Methodist Church, setting up a boarding home for girls, supporting the early Methodist Peranakan Chinese Christian work, and publishing a Christian periodical in
The Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church (TA1) was instituted in 1889. It was gazetted a national monument by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore on 23 March 1989.
Aerial view of Kampong Kapor Methodist Church. The 1928 building is on the left; the education block (c. 1980s) is on the right