The Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church is located at 235 Telok Ayer Street, at the junction with Cecil Street. Founded in 1889 by Benjamin Franklin West primarily for the Hokkien-speaking Chinese community, it is considered the oldest Chinese Methodist church ...
Sophia Blackmore (b. 18 October 1857, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia–d. 3 July 1945, Australia) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore. During her stay in Singapore from 1887 to 1928, she ...
Wesley Methodist Church is located at 5 Fort Canning Road, in the Museum precinct of the Central Region in Singapore. Originally called the Methodist Episcopal Church, it was the first Methodist Church in Singapore, and was renamed Wesley Methodist Church in 1910. ...
Located at 11 Blackmore Drive, the Methodist Girls’ School (MGS) was founded by Sophia Blackmore on 15 August 1887. It was the first educational institution for girls established in Singapore by the Methodists. Its earlier names were Tamil Girls’ School (1887), ...
The Kampong Kapor Methodist Church is located at 1 Kampong Kapor Road in Little India. Established in 1894, it was the first Peranakan (Straits Chinese) church and the fourth Methodist church in Singapore. In its early years, the church catered only to the Peranakan ...
The Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church building is located at the junction of Telok Ayer Street and Cecil Street in Singapore’s Central Business District. Constructed in 1924, the building’s architecture is a unique blend of Eastern and Western styles, and does ...
Short Street begins at the junction where it meets Middle Road, Selegie Road and Wilkie Road. It connects Selegie Road to Rochor Canal Road. Although some suggest that the road might be named after Septimus Short, who spoke on public issues related to railways ...
Methodism is a Protestant Christian religion. The first Methodist church in Singapore was formed following the arrival of Bishop James Mills Thoburn (Dr) and Reverend William Fitzjames Oldham on 7 February 1885. Daily prayer services commenced the following day ...
Janet Lim Chiu Mei (b. 14 July c.1923, Hong Kong–5 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia), born Kwek Chiu Mei, was Singapore’s first Asian hospital matron but is better remembered as its first Asian memoirist. Lim’s bestselling memoir, Sold for Silver, recounts her ...
Goh Hood Keng (b. 27 February 1888, Singapore–d. 30 January 1961, Singapore) was the first Straits Chinese to be ordained a Methodist minister. He taught at the Anglo-Chinese School for almost 20 years and spent nearly four decades preaching at the Straits Chinese ...
William Girdlestone Shellabear (b. 27 August 1862, England¬–d. 16 January 1947, Hartford, Connecticut, United States) was a Methodist missionary, scholar in Malay literature, writer, editor, translator and founder of the Methodist Publishing House (first known ...
Heinrich Ludwig Emil Luering (Dr) (b. 9 December 1863, Delmenhorst, Oldenburg, Germany–d. 14 October 1937, Frankfurt, Germany) was a linguistically gifted Methodist pastor. He carried out missionary work for the Methodist Church in Borneo, Singapore and Perak, ...
William Fitzjames Oldham, Bishop (b. 15 December, 1854, Bangalore, South India – d. 27 March, 1937, Pasadena, California, United States) was the founder and bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaya. He is also remembered for having founded the Anglo-Chinese School, ...
Benjamin Franklin West (b. 22 April 1858, Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA–d. 2 July 1933, Seattle, Washington, USA) was an American medical practitioner and Methodist missionary to Penang and Singapore.
The MPH story spans more than 100 years of printing, publishing and retail bookselling. Known variously as Malaysia Publishing House, Malaya Publishing House and, prior to that, Methodist Publishing House, the history of MPH can be traced back to 1890. It began ...