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Telok Blangah | |
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Subzone ofBukit Merah Planning Area & Housing Estate | |
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| • Chinese | 直落布兰雅 |
| • Pinyin | Zhíluò Bùlányǎ |
| • Malay(Rumi) | Teluk Belanga |
| • Malay(Jawi) | تلوق بلاڠا |
| • Tamil | தெலுக் பிளாங்கா |
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Telok Blangah (Chinese:直落布兰雅,Tamil:தெலுக் பிளாங்கா) is a subzone region and housing estate located in the area behindKeppel Harbour inBukit Merah,Singapore. Telok Blangah is represented by three contiguous subzones of Bukit Merah inURA masterplans: Telok Blangah Drive, Telok Blangah Way and Telok Blangah Rise.[1]
The region is named after thebay.Telok Blangah (Jawi: تلوق بلڠه) is aMalay compound ofblanga "a type of cooking pot" andtelok "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 inHokkien (POJ: Sit-Lat mn̂g), meaning "Singapore gate". It is the namesake of theTeluk Belanga (modern Malay spelling) style ofBaju Melayu, the traditional costume of Malay men.
Historically, this area is as old as the thirteenth century city ofTemasek. The area is rich withMalay aristocratic history of past royal events. According to theMalay Annals,Sang Nila Utama's boat ran into a storm and he threw everything overboard, including hiscrown before landing just off Telok Blangah beach.
The area gained prominence again during theBritish period whenSir Stamford Raffles in 1823 assignedTemenggong Abdul Rahman (died 1825) and his followers 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land for theirresidence and acemetery. The area flourished under Temenggong Abdul Rahman because of hismonopoly over thegutta percha trade.
Temenggong Abdul Rahman's eldest son, Tun Haji Abdullah, informally took over asTemenggong of Johor after his death in 1825, followed by his second sonDaeng Ibrahim informally in 1833 and officially on 19 August 1841.
In 1845,Telok Blangah Hill (Malay:Bukit Telok Blangah) was renamed toMount Faber after CaptainCharles Edward Faber.
FollowingTemenggong Daeng Ibrahim’s death in 1862, his first sonTemenggong Abu Bakar succeed him and moved his Istana toTyersall. In 1885, when Maharaja Abu Bakar became theSultan of Johor, he moved toJohor Bahru.
The former royal audience hall (now a mosque,Masjid Temenggong Daeng Ibrahim) and theJohor Royal Mausoleum still remain today at Telok Blangah Road, nearVivoCity 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 andshrine nearby isKeramat Bukit Kasita atBukit Purmei, which is the final resting place of theRiau-Lingga royal family, a split of theJohor royal family.[2]
Telok Blangah Road was officially named in 1907. Thesacred shrine of PuteriRaden Mas Ayu, a sixteenth-century Javanese princess, is located at Mount Faber Road, near the junction with Telok Blangah Road.
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) andKoon Seng Ting (堃成堂) were built in 1880 and managed to weather through more than 100 years at the same location.[3] Both temples were proposed for conservation under the Draft Master Plan 2013 by Urban Redevelopment Authority.[4] 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.[5]
Telok Blangah is served by thenamesake MRT station of theCircle line, located at Telok Blangah Drive subzone.Tiong Bahru MRT station of the East West Line andHarbourFront MRT station of the Circle/North East lines are relatively closer from Telok Blangah Way and Telok Blangah Rise subzones, linked to by various public bus services.
The nearest bus interchanges areBukit Merah Bus Interchange, located in Bukit Merah Town Centre, andHarbourFront Bus Interchange, inHarbourFront.
There are three primary schools, a single secondary school and a single private school in Telok Blangah. They are: Blangah Rise Primary School, CHIJ Kellock, Radin Mas Primary School,CHIJ St. Theresa's Convent and Shelton College International.
Telok Blangah is politically divided into two constituencies,Radin Mas Single Member Constituency and Telok Blangah division of theWest Coast Group Representation Constituency. The subzones of Telok Blangah Way and Telok Blangah Rise fall under Radin Mas SMC while Telok Blangah Drive fall under West Coast GRC. The current Members of Parliament (MPs) areMelvin Yong in Radin Mas andRachel Ong in West Coast, of thePeople's Action Party.
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