Telok Blangah

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Telok Blangah
Subzone of Jawi		تلوق بلڠه
• Tamil	தெலுக் பிளாங்கா

Telok Blangah (Chinese: 直落布兰雅, Tamil: தெலுக் பிளாங்கா) is a subzone region and housing estate located in the area behind Keppel Harbour in Bukit Merah, Singapore. Teluk Blanga is the district between Pasir Panjang and Tanjong Pagar.

Name

The region is named after the

"a type of cooking pot" and telok "bay" and so literally means "cooking pot bay", so named on account of its shape.

In the olden maps, Telok Blangah's name spelling was written as Teluk Blanga, Teluk Belanga and Teluk Blangah.

Teluk Blanga is known as 石叻門 in

, the traditional costume of Malay men.

History

Historically, this area is as old as the thirteenth century city of

crown

before landing just off Telok Blangah beach.

The area gained prominence again during the

gutta percha

trade.

Temenggong Abdul Rahman's eldest son, Tun Haji Abdullah, informally took over as Temenggong of Johor after his death in 1825, followed by his second son Daeng Ibrahim informally in 1833 and officially on 19 August 1841.

In 1845,

.

Following

.

The former royal audience hall (now a mosque,

and Sentosa Gateway. The last to be buried was Ungku Modh. Khalif (or Khalid), the younger brother of Sultan Abu Bakar in 1900.

Another Malay royal cemetery and

Telok Blangah Road was officially named in 1907. The sacred shrine of Puteri Raden Mas Ayu, a sixteenth-century Javanese princess, is located at Mount Faber Road, near the junction with Telok Blangah Road.

Other Landmarks

There are several century-old Chinese temples constructed to meet the spiritual and social needs of the Chinese immigrants who settled in the area around Telok Blangah in the late 1800s. Ban Siew San Kuan Imm Tong (萬壽山觀音堂) and Koon Seng Ting (堃成堂) were built in 1880 and managed to weather through more than 100 years at the same location.^[2] Both temples were proposed for conservation under the Draft Master Plan 2013 by Urban Redevelopment Authority.^[3] Another prominent old temple in the area will be Telok Blangah Ting Kong Beo (直落布蘭雅天公廟) which was built in 1923 or earlier.^[4]

References

• Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2003), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore Street Names, Eastern Universities Press,
  ISBN 981-210-205-1