This 1985 photograph shows a Malay house at no. 22 Bedok Avenue. Bedok is Malay for the drum that was used in pre-loudspeaker days to call worshippers to the mosque for prayers. Title devised by Library staff. Date of creation estimated.

Credit Line

From the Lee Kip Lin Collection. All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

Subjects

• Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Residential Buildings
• Architecture and Landscape>>Architectural Styles
• Dwellings--Singapore--Photographs
• Architecture, Domestic--Singapore--Photographs
• Lawns--Singapore--Photographs
• Bedok (Singapore)--Photographs