Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 1889, a Methodist missionary and medical doctor, Dr Benjamin West, arrived in Singapore and soon after set up his dispensary and home in Japan Street (now Boon Tat Street). The Chinese living in the area were mostly Hokkiens and many were opium addicts. Dr West started services in a rented house in Upper Nankin Street in August 1889. At first, the congregation was mostly Hokkien-speaking. However, as more migrants came from the Methodist strongholds of Henghua, Hockchia and Foochow, many of the Hokkien speakers in the congregation left the church.…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 1889, a Methodist missionary and medical doctor, Dr Benjamin West, arrived in Singapore and soon after set up his dispensary and home in Japan Street (now Boon Tat Street). The Chinese living in the area were mostly Hokkiens and many were opium addicts. Dr West started services in a rented house in Upper Nankin Street in August 1889. At first, the congregation was mostly Hokkien-speaking. However, as more migrants came from the Methodist strongholds of Henghua, Hockchia and Foochow, many of the Hokkien speakers in the congregation left the church. Thus, two Chinese Methodist churches developed Foochow Methodist Church and Hokkien Methodist Church developed with Lau Seng Chong and Lim Un Su as part-time pastors.