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36 and 38 Armenian Street

📍 36 ARMENIAN STREET
🗺️ D06 — High Street, Beach Road, City Hall
🏢 MCST 3639Shophouse · Office · Retail✓ Management Directory

About 36 and 38 Armenian Street

36 and 38 Armenian Street is a small strata-titled commercial property in District 6, the City Hall and Civic District, with the postal code 179934. It is listed as a shophouse-type building with shops and offices. The Estate.sg directory shows unit numbers running from the first to the fourth storey and about 29 strata units, many of them used as registered offices by small companies. Little has been published about the building itself, so the history below is about the street.

Armenian Street runs from Coleman Street to the junction of Stamford Road. The Urban Redevelopment Authority lists an Armenian Street and Loke Yew Street Conservation Area with 17 conserved buildings. Whether numbers 36 and 38 are among them has not been verified.

Interesting facts

  • The street is named after the Armenian Church of St Gregory the Illuminator nearby. Completed in 1835 to a design by George Coleman, it is the oldest surviving Christian church in Singapore and a National Monument.

  • An older Hokkien name for the street meant the back of Seng Poh's new building, after the first Chinese member of the Municipal Commission.

  • The Peranakan Museum at 39 Armenian Street occupies the old Tao Nan School building. It reopened in February 2023 after a closure of almost four years.

  • Number 45 was built in 1926 as a power substation and from 1990 to 2021 housed The Substation, Singapore's first independent contemporary arts centre.

Nearby

City Hall (North South and East West Lines), Bras Basah (Circle Line) and Bencoolen (Downtown Line) MRT stations are each about ten minutes away on foot. Close neighbours include the Peranakan Museum, the Armenian Church, Capitol Singapore, Funan, the National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Management University and Fort Canning Park.

Key facts

  • Address: 36 Armenian Street, Singapore 179934

  • District: 6 (City Hall, Civic District)

  • Property type: Shophouse, office and retail (strata)

  • Storeys: units listed on levels 1 to 4

  • Units: about 29

  • Nearest MRT: City Hall (NS25/EW13), Bras Basah (CC2), Bencoolen (DT21)

  • MCST: 3639