Lau Pa Sat
A Victorian cast-iron market hall in the financial district, built on this site in 1894 and now a hawker centre. Its octagonal frame shelters stalls of local food, and in the evening the street beside it closes to traffic for satay grilled in the open.
- Where
- Singapore, Singapore
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 1.2806, 103.8504
Get the Lau Pa Sat stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Lau Pa Sat. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Singapore volume with your photos and a note.
Near Lau Pa Sat
Thian Hock Keng Temple 0.3 km
A Hokkien temple on Telok Ayer Street built for Mazu, the Chinese goddess of the sea. It once stood on the shoreline, and sailors arriving from China came here to give thanks for a safe crossing. It is now a national monument.
Jamae Mosque 0.6 km
A mosque on South Bridge Road in Chinatown, built in the 1830s by Muslim immigrants from South India and one of the earliest Indian Muslim mosques in the country. Its eclectic gateway, with twin minaret towers, has made it a national monument since 1974.
Maxwell Food Centre 0.6 km
A hawker centre at the corner of Maxwell Road and South Bridge Road, on the edge of Chinatown. It is one of the city's best known for Hainanese chicken rice, and the queues at its most famous stalls form well before lunch.
Sri Mariamman Temple 0.6 km
Singapore's oldest Hindu temple, founded in 1827 on South Bridge Road in Chinatown and built in the Dravidian style. Its gopuram is crowded with painted figures of gods, and each year it hosts the Theemithi festival, when devotees walk across burning coals.
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore 0.7 km
A grand colonnaded building at the mouth of the Singapore River, commissioned in 1924 for the colony's centenary and long home to the General Post Office. Named after Robert Fullerton, first Governor of the Straits Settlements, it is now a luxury hotel.
Boat Quay 0.7 km
A curve of old shophouses on the southern bank of the Singapore River near its mouth, running from UOB Plaza to Elgin Bridge. Once the centre of the port's trade, it now lines the water with restaurant tables beneath the towers of the financial district.
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum 0.7 km
A Chinese Buddhist temple in Chinatown, built in the style of the Tang dynasty and opened in 2007. It is named for the tooth relic of the Buddha kept in a golden stupa on an upper floor, and its rooftop garden holds a large prayer wheel.
Chinatown 0.8 km
The old Chinese quarter of Singapore, streets of restored shophouses running up from South Bridge Road to Ann Siang Hill. Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim places of worship stand within a few streets of each other, and its hawker centres are among the city's best known.
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Questions
Where is Lau Pa Sat?
Lau Pa Sat is in Singapore, Singapore. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Thian Hock Keng Temple (0.3 km), Jamae Mosque (0.6 km), Maxwell Food Centre (0.6 km).
How do I get the Lau Pa Sat stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Lau Pa Sat and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Singapore volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Lau Pa Sat before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Singapore volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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