Istana Kampong Gelam

Syd

Ingat2 lupa dah pasal Istana nih.
dan tingin nak tahu gak cerita-ceriti ttg istana nih, kisah sultan2 yang memerintah, penduduk2 nya etc.

ada wat surfing, dan jupe beberapa artikel yang agak menarik.


dan harap2 sesiapa yang ada info, bolehlah kongsi sekali.

tq



[ Last edited by  Syd at 27-5-2009 10:46 ]

Syd

Singapore is a cosmopolitan city whose population comprises various ethnic groups of Malays, Chinese, Indians and others. When speaking of places which evoke distinctiveness based on ethnicity, what comes to mind would be Chinatown (chinese), Peranakan Corner (Straits Chinese), Little India of Serangoon Road (Indian) and Geylang Malay Village. Those not aware of the unique history and background of Kampong Glam may also consider it to be distinctlt representing the ethnic Malay, but this is an oversimplication. Unlike Kampung Ubi or Geylang, Kampong Glam was once a cosmopolitan settlement of Muslims from diverse ethnic background, fused by a common faith and a way of life. It was Singapore's earliest Muslim Quarter.

What's in the name?

The word "Kampung" literally means "village or settlement" and "Glam" is the name of a particular tree, which grew in abundance here during the early period of Singapore. The "Glam" specie or Kayu Putih (Melaleuca Cajuputi) is a botany member of the jambu family and related to the Australia Eucalyptus tree. Extract from the leaves is the medicinal oil "Minyak Kayu Putih" which is useful in treating almost every known ailment then viz. from ear, tooth and headaches, muscular and arithistic cramps, as well as for dressing wounds and treating sores.

"Kota Raja" - the King's enclave

When the British etablished themselves in Singapore in 1819, Kampong Glam was designated for the Sultan of Singapore (Sultan Hussain Shah) to be his enclave. A palace or "istana" was rebuilt for him here and his enclave extended outward beyond this residence, in a wide area bounded from the Rochore river (presently Rochore canal) and transverse from what is now Rochore Road up to Jalan Sultan. Over the years, much of this land was sold or leased or given for various use such as burial grounds, schools or madrasa, mosque or for cultivation. Although the whole area or enclave was called "Kota Raja", this term now refers only to the walled palace area called "Istana Kampong Glam".

Bussorah Street - "the pilgrims village"

In the early days, the most significant trade of the people here was to act as agents for the Haj pilgrims and provided other such services connected with it. During those steamship days, Singapore was the most important port of departure for pilgrims from around East Asia destined for Mecca. Agents for these pilgrims from the Archipelago would house them temporarily in their lodging homes here. There were even some who came from China and these Chinese Muslims were called "Cina Kwangtung" (lit. "Chinese from Canton") which distinguish them as Muslims. The sheer number of these "Haji's" added colour to the community which make the area a miniature pilgrim's village. This was the reason why many of the streets around this area have such Middle-Eastern flavour - Bussorah (Basra) Street, Kandahar Street, Muscat Street, Bagdad Street, Arab Street, Haji Lane and Shaik Madrasah Lane - interspersed with Pahang Street, Bali Lane and Sultan Gate.

Remnants of a Unique Traditional Trade

Blacksmith

Originally, the blacksmith trade thrive in and around Beach Road and Sultan Gate (where some still exist), making ship paraphernalia such as anchors, hooks, pulleys and this now include other hardwares.

Tombstone carver

Along Pahang Street and Bagdad Street, one can still find this trade. Probably because in the early days, amongst the goods off-loaded at Kampong Glam by ships from the Archipelago, would include granite blocks. As a growing community then, granite was much needed as one of the materials used in the pre-war houses. With the existence of a nearby cemetery at Jalan Kubur and Victoria Street, regular demand for tombstones was assured. This trade somehow became a trademark of this place.

Historical Buildings and Places

"Istana Kampong Glam" - royal residence

"Istana Kampong Glam" or literally "Kampong Glam Palace" was the official residence of Sultan Hussain Muaazzam Shah ibni Sultan Mahmud, who together with the Temenggong Abdul Rahman, ceded Singapore to the East India Company. In that agreement, the Malay Royal family relinquished all sovereign rights over Singapore to the British. The British on their part, recognized that Kampong Glam should remain in the Sultan's family and that annual stipend be given to him and his descendants. The present palace was rebuilt, with funds from the British. It is believed that this Istana was designed by George Coleman - Singapore's first European architect. It has three arches on the front and the dacade, windows etc. are very similar to other buildings designed by him then, such as Parliament house and the Armenian church. The extensive compound was beautifully lawn and the whole Istana ground was protected by a walled perimeter. Small kampung-style houses were built around this perimeter wall for the Sultan's kin, servants and artisan. One of the Sultan's descendants, a sports enthusiasts, founded a sports club (the first Malay sports club), the "Kota Raja Club" which is still existing within the Istana compound. The Istana is still lived by the present rioyal descendants. Being the 'historic seats of Singapore Malay royalty, Istana Kampong Glam is in the pipeline of the government's intention to restore and convert it into a museum and workshop showing the many traditional Maly cultural and handicrafts within heritage area.

"Gedung Kuning" - the Bendahara's house

On the left of the main entrance just outside of the Island compund, stands this large grand house. Because traditionally, it has always been painted with the royal colour - yellow, the locals called it "Gedung Kuning" (the yellow mansion). But by Sultan of Hussain Shah, it was once occupied by his descendants up to Tengku Mahmud, but was sold upon the latter's death. Subsequently, it was purchased by a local Javanese businessman, Haji Yusof Bin Haji Mohammad Noor - who was known locally as "Haji Yusof Talipinggang" (Haji Yusof the belt merchant), and this mansion is still lived by his descendants.


link: http://www.mosque.org.sg/sultan/kglam.html

eiyoei

rasanya kampung ni dah pupus.. tinggal istana je.. itu pun dah uzur

razifah

Masa sedang di baiki....skg dah cun kot...

razifah

The site of Istana Kampong Glam was excavated in early 2000 and excavations have continued sporadically until mid-2003. 12 squares have been excavated on the site. All squares were excavated till sterile layer was reached at the depth of 80-90cm.

Istana Kampong Glam is a 19th and 20th century site. The present Istana was built around 1842 but written accounts have described a wooden structure that Sultan Hussein and his family lived in as early as 1830. Investigations on the Southeast corner of the site have pointed to a structure that might possibly predate the Istana.

The earliest dated artifacts were VOC (Dutch East Indies Company) and mid-Qing coins. Other artifacts recovered were mostly from the 19th and 20th century and consisted of locally made Malay earthenware; European transfer print ceramic and modern porcelain wares; local and imported glassware; Chinese exported and locally made porcelain and stoneware; Japanese ceramic ware; metallic tools; metal slag; terrestrial and marine faunal bones as well as various species of marine gastropods and bivalves among others.

Sumber : http://www.seaarchaeology.com/v1/html/sg/kampong_galm.html

razifah

Syd nie gambar terbaru.....

razifah

Kampong Glam is a neighbourhood in Singapore, a city-state in Southeast Asia. It is located east of the Singapore River, in the urban planning area of Rochor. Prior to colonization by the British in 1819, the area was home to the Malay aristocracy of Singapore. During the colony's early history, under the Raffles Plan, the Kampong Glam was designated for the Sultan of Singapore and his household, as well as the Malay and Arab communities, many of whom were merchants. It was situated east of what was then the European Town. This ethnic area still retains strong ties to the ethnic-Malay and Muslim community, and has sometimes been termed the "Muslim Quarter" due to its history. When more crowded conditions later arose as the colony grew, some of these ethnic populations moved into the Geylang neighbourhood.

Since the 1980s, several large portions of the area have been declared National Heritage sites and have been protected for conservation. Some of these conserved areas in Kampong Glam include the Sultan Mosque, the Hajjah Fatimah Mosque and the Istana Kampong Glam, the palace of the former Sultan of Singapore.

p/s: Kampung Gelam - Memori Luka buat kesultanan melayu....dan khasnya MELAYU.

razifah

Sumber ; Wikipedia

eiyoei

dah cun...

atas usaha kerajaan spore ke kerajaan mesia ni?

razifah

Originally posted by eiyoei at 4-10-2006 04:14 PM
dah cun...

atas usaha kerajaan spore ke kerajaan mesia ni?

Tak pastilah...rase nyer singapura. Tapi setelah berjuang bermati-matian utk menyelamatkan nyer:geram:...kalau tak silap dulu gov singapura nak robohkan kalau tak silap...nanti ifa cari semula info tue...

Syd

Residents of Istana Kampong Glam.

Their names are prefixed by the titles of Tengku or Raja and they trace their lineage back to the Sultanates of Singapore and Johor.

They are related, by historical ties if not by blood, to many of the royal houses of Malaysia, and the now defunct royal houses of Riau and Lingga. These are the residents of Istana Kampong Glam, the last bastion or royalty in the very modern metropolis of Singapore.

The residents, some of them belonging to 27 families, are the descendants of Sultan Hussain Syah ( ruled 1819-1835), the 16th Sultan of Johor and Singapore.

Royalty抯 unhappiest over the Singapore Government proposed plan of converting the palace into a Malay Heritage Cenre. By Thanam Vissvanaathan (New Straits Times (Malaysia)

The palace found itself in the eye of a storm in early May 1999 when the Singapore Government has proposed converting the palace into a Malay Heritage Centre.

The move to 慹vict

Syd

Originally posted by razifah at 4-10-2006 04:12 PM


Sumber ; Wikipedia

Central Market (pasar seni) pun design baru dia mcm nih gak
orang singapore pajak central market tuh
baru selesai renovate

Syd

Singapore's royal family fights move to council housing
By Alex Spillius in Singapore [For the Daily Telegraph]

DESCENDANTS of the last Malay king to rule Singapore are challenging government plans to move them from their 19th century city-centre palace, which has deteriorated into a slum occupied by 200 of his extended family.

In the courtyard of Istana (Palace) Kampong Glam chickens and cats now roam and mothers scream at children dressed in rags. Lean-tos with tin roofs have gradually encroached on the once-grand colonial-era pile, where the ground floor is divided into confined living quarters sleeping families of five or six.

To a government committed to tightly controlled development the palace is an intolerable anomaly. It intends to turn the site into a Malay Heritage Centre as part of ambitious plans to improve the island state's drab reputation by promoting it as a city of culture.

The royal community, having received its marching orders in March, has other ideas and last week petitioned the prime minister claiming that it was legally entitled to stay in the ancestral home.

"I was born here, my father was born here. They will have to kill me first. Then I may go," said Raja, a 63-year-old chauffeur, former army sergeant and seventh-generation descendant of Sultan Hussain, who died in 1835, already out of power since the island had been ceded to Sir Stamford Raffles in 1824. "This place may not be perfect, but it is real life. It is a village and you don't find that any more in Singapore," said 28-year-old Damai.

As colonial rule was established and Singapore became South-East Asia's most profitable entrepot, the grandchildren of Sultan Hussain squabbled over the family's dwindling assets, obliging the British to step in.

Under the 1904 Sultan Hussain Ordinance, which described the royal clan as "very improvident people", the palace became Crown property. Some of the sultan's descendants were allowed to stay on rent-free and were granted an annual pension.

Until the Second World War, this kept the family in the style to which it was accustomed. But subsequently the largesse, sustained by independent Singapore, has been more thinly spread among an ever-growing number of beneficiaries - now numbering 79 - very few of whom seem inclined to join the city's economic boom.

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Singapore Royal Community Divided

By Jasmina Kuzmanovic for Associated Press May 11, 1999

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Standing before his ancestral palace, Prince Mohd Noor seemed oblivious to chickens clacking at his feet, and to the powerful smell of cow lungs cooking on an open fire.

But then, Prince Mohd's 160-year-old home ancestral home has lost most of its grandeur. Crowded with 200 other descendants of Singapore's last sultan, Hussein, Prince Mohd and his relatives have tacked on unsightly tin and plywood annexes to house younger generations of royals.

"This country does not take care of its royal family,'' Prince Mohd, 24, said bitterly.

Sultan Hussein ruled Singapore and parts of neighboring Malaysia before ceding them to the British in 1824. His descendants are now divided over the government's plans to move the bluebloods out and turn the one-story palace into a heritage center for Singapore's Malay community.

Istana, which means palace in Malay, was once a lovely colonial structure with a sweeping porch and large windows overlooking the gardens. But today it's mostly hidden by the improvised annexes, and its gardens have given way to gravel and parking lots.

Inside, makeshift walls erected to give privacy to residents conceal Istana's large halls. But nothing can hide the decay and dirt, or mask the strong odor of rot and sewage.

Life in the royal compound resembles a kampong, an old Malay-style village.

One family boils cow lungs in a cauldron on an open fire, while cats sit nearby anticipating a treat. A dozen women and children enjoy the shady porch, away from the afternoon sun. Chickens roam the palace grounds.

But in March, the government announced plans to empty Istana. In return, 79 recognized heirs of Sultan Hussein are to share $205,000 a year over the next 30 years.

The offer has divided the royal community.

Some, tired of living in cramped and dirty conditions, seem willing to accept the deal. But 31 people have rejected the plan, demanding the government restore the palace and allow its residents to continue living there for free.

The royal family, though, may not have much of a choice. None of them is the legal owner of Istana.

When Sultan Hussein died, the British appropriated about 56 acres of his land, including the ground of Istana. They allowed his offspring to live in Istana and ruled that financial provisions be made for the family. The heirs now share $17,000 a year.

A spokesman for the family members opposed to the new plan, Prince Mohamed, has said the authorities should compensate the royals for all the land that the British had taken from Sultan Hussein. But the government does not seem intent on righting past wrongs.

"The state has allowed them to live there,'' said Lichong Jin, assistant director of land policy in the Ministry of Law. Now the state will help resettle Istana's residents, he told The Associated Press.

No date has been set for vacating Istana's grounds. But when the move comes, it will permanently change the lives Hussein's impoverished descendants, who like to use words like "history'' and "royalty.''

Prince Mohd, who has never worked and likes to be addressed by his royal title "tengku,'' fears he may lose some of the royal trappings.

"I like to be called Tengku,'' he said. "If you work, you have no respect. Nobody calls you Tengku there.''

Others, though, see an opportunity for a new life. Mohd Qhalid, a 17-year-old school dropout and son of a princess, said: "It's not so important that I'm a royalty. It's not like in the old times.''

Mohd Qhalid's wish: to become an electrician.   


link: http://www.sfdonline.org/Link%20 ... Other/royalfam.html

deaf4ever

kalo ada descendant Istana Kampung Glam baca ni, suruh dorang ceta sendiri la..
dulu aku kecik2, aku ada pegi Sultan Gate ni, dia kat tengah cam padang, so called istana tu kat satu hujung kiri kanan semua sederet rumah kampung.
Istana cam bangalow buruk. Terus terang punye cakap la kan...
Tapi dorang dapat duit jugak untuk keluar dari tempat ni, lumayan jugak..

bila ada sesetengah tu pot pet pot pet kat KL, aku tak rasa ada orang ambik pot.
Sultan Johor and kerabat pun aku tak rasa buat apa2. Ni ceta 1820s punye ceta.

Dah memang keturunan dorang gile duit, gile harta, kasi Singapore kat English..  
So dorang nak apa lagi? salahkan keturunan dorang la...

Sorry Syd, wa kasi opinion wa je hehehehe

deaf4ever

Originally posted by Syd at 4-10-2006 04:52 PM
Singapore's royal family fights move to council housing
By Alex Spillius in Singapore

DESCENDANTS of the last Malay king to rule Singapore are challenging government plans to move them from th ...

Terus terang, kalo bangga keturunan raja, patut jadi contoh tauladan...

ni setakat nak relak goyang kaki, lepas tu nak rakyat jelata sponsor ( pasal duit gavemen tu duit rakyat )
mana boleh??

ni aku tuju kat so called royalty ni semua eh, bukan royalty luar Singapore

deaf4ever

Originally posted by razifah at 4-10-2006 04:26 PM


Tak pastilah...rase nyer singapura. Tapi setelah berjuang bermati-matian utk menyelamatkan nyer:geram:...kalau tak silap dulu gov singapura nak robohkan kalau tak silap...nanti ifa cari ...

Hah carik please, kita semua nak baca...

deaf4ever

tadi aku memang lalu sana so aku snap pasal aku ada bayang2 ni topik nak kena bukak tak lama lagi


Tembok ni tak salah aku tembok ori.. Ni Main Entrance

deaf4ever

ni memang lama nye..
aku kecik ingat lagi dah ada sign ni..

at least tahun 70an nye sign
pasal postal code cuma 4 nombor tu jam

deaf4ever

main entrance

deaf4ever

lagik