Places of worship in Singapore Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Places of worship in Singapore
What is now Singapore was historically under the control of numerous kingdoms of theMalay Archipelago, with some of the most notable ones being Srivijaya (based inPalembangin modern-dayIndonesia), Majapahit (based inJavain modern-day Indonesia) and theMalaccaSultanate (based in modern-dayMalaysia). The modern history of Singapore is generally said to have begun in 1819, when Sir Stamford Raffles of the British East India Company exploited a succession dispute in the royal family of theJohorSultanate (which Singapore was under the jurisdiction of at the time) to establish a British trading post on the island, at the mouth of the Singapore River. Due to Singapore's strategic location on the main shipping routes between West Asia and East Asia, and Raffles' masterstroke to declare it a free p
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