Visual Index of Singapore Sites (Site name and description)
	British Barracks (used until 1942) The barracks of British colonial soldiers up until the Japanese invasion.		Fort Canning (1860) Fortress built in the early colonial days of Singapore.
	Fuk Tak Chi Temple (1824-1994, 1997 onward as a museum) The oldest temple structure in Singapore		Guanyin Temple (1884 onwards) Temple dedicated to the Chinese Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin (Guan Yin).
	Hong San See Temple (1829) A traditional-style Southern Chinese temple.		Jamae Mosque (1826) A South-Indian style Mosque established by the Chulias.
	Nagore Durgha Shrine (1828-30) A shrine to a Muslim holy man from southern India.		Old Thong Chai Medical Hall (1828-30) A shrine to a Muslim holy man from southern India.
	Sri Krishnan Temple A small Hindu temple just a few doors down from Kuan Yin temple.		Sri Mariamman Temple (1824 onward) A large Hindu temple almost as old as Singapore itself.
	Sultan Mosque Singapore's largest mosque.		Thian Hock Keng Temple (1839-42 onward) The temple of heavenly happiness.
	Wak Hai Cheng Temple (1895 onward) A Taoist temple to placate the gods of the sea.

About Singapore

Singapore is a small but enormously prosperous city-state on the southernmost tip of the Malay peninsula. The city is an ethic polyglot with English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil the four national languages. However, nearly 3/4 of the citizens are Chinese, mostly settlers and immigrants from the southern Chinese provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Hainan island.

Singapore is heavily influenced by a British colonial presence that began in 1819 when Sir Stamford Raffles established a trading post here. During World War II the city was overrun by the Japanese but was liberated in 1945. For twenty years thereafter Singapore was a part of Malaysia, but it withdrew from the federation in 1965. Since then the city-state has risen from 3rd world status to 1st. The per-capita income of its inhabitants is the fifth-highest in the world and its port is the second busiest after Rotterdam (in Holland). Some would say that this prosperity has come at a steep price: the redevelopment has destroyed much of the city's historic fabric and invited wholescale Westernization. Nevertheless, the city retains a certain character and is one of the safest and most cosmopolitan cities in Asia.