In Singapore with Sophie and Dora, we visit the Armenian
Church. It was the first Christian church to be built in Singapore, in 1835,
the architect Irishman George Coleman.
I love it dearly and have visited it most times I’ve been in
the city over a thirty-plus year period. Even in the prevailing high
temperature and humidity, it remains a haven of peace and tranquillity.
Yesterday we visited the Asian Civilisations Museum, and
explored an exhibition of early colonial life, but I saw no mention there of
the extraordinary contribution of the local Armenian community to the growth
and development of life in Singapore.
Raffles Hotel and The Straits Times are
just two of their surviving legacies.
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