Singapore cemetries

[Cecil Lee]

Source & Credit: The Sunday Times APRIL 10, 2011

GRAVE TOURS

BUKIT BROWN CEMETERY (LORNIE ROAD)

Bukit Brown holds the remains of many Singapore pioneers including Chew Boon Lay, Lim Chong Pang and Lim Nee Soon as well as Tan Kim CHing, eldest son of Tan Tock Seng.

It also includes what may be the oldest grave in Singapore - the final resting place of a certain Fang Shan who died in 1833.

CHUA CHU KANG CHINESE CEMETRY

Many graves here are built in the shape of animals such as fish or snakes, in accordance with feng shui principles.

In the night, it also attracts many mediums and their followers, who conduct regular seances there.

JAPANESE CEMETRY PARK (CHUAN HOE AVENUE)

The land was donated by brothel owner Tagajiro Fukaki in the 19th century as a burial ground for Japanese prostitutes and is now maintained by the Japanese Association of Singapore. No one has been buried there since 1973.

Famous names interred there include field marshal Count Terauchi Hisaichi supreme commander of Japanese forces in South-east Asia during WWII.

The graves of the Japanese prostitutes, their children and their mama-sans range from simple grave markers to elaborate tombstones.

[Cecil Lee]

Recent Photos of taken at the Japanese cemetery at Chuan Hoe Avenue

Contrary to popular belief; many cemeteries are/we’re on ausiplots of land. Even the Japanese knows this!

It becomes inauspicious when : if the land was seized for redevelopment and bones were not fully recovered or removed.

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