Nagore Durgha

First published on 28 Jan 2008.

This shrine was built to honour an Indian Muslim holy man from Chulia who visited Singapore in the early 19th century. Thanks to its striking, palatial design – characterised by 14-storey minarets topped by onion domes – it was given national monument status in the 1970s. But in the ’90s the building was deemed structurally unsound and closed.

Refurbishment has now finished and the shrine is re-opening.