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53 Chander Road

📍 53 CHANDER ROAD
🗺️ D08 — Little India, Farrer Park
🚇 Little India MRT (DT12 / NE7)374 m, 5 min walk · Farrer Park MRT (NE8)416 m, 5 min walk · Rochor MRT (DT13)546 m, 7 min walk
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About 53 Chander Road

53 Chander Road is a conserved shophouse with apartments above, managed under MCST 1780. OneMap records three addresses for it, 53, 53A and 53B Chander Road, Singapore 219549, all within the Little India Conservation Area. Three addresses at one postal code suggest a three-storey building with one address per floor, although no published source gives its height or age. It lies in District 8 (Little India and Farrer Park), further along the street than number 33 and nearer the Race Course Lane end.

Interesting facts

  • URA first gazetted Little India for conservation on 7 July 1989 and added more buildings in 1991, 2008 and 2010. The conservation area is bounded by Serangoon Road, Sungei Road and Jalan Besar.

  • URA identifies four shophouse styles in the district: Early (1840 to 1900), First Transitional, Late (1900 to 1940) and Second Transitional to Art Deco (1930 to 1960).

  • Chander Road is home to the Foochow Methodist Church and the Shree Lakshminarayan Temple, so a Chinese-language church and a North Indian temple share the same short street.

Nearby

Both Little India station (NE7/DT12) and Farrer Park station (NE8) on the North East Line are within walking distance, with Little India slightly more convenient for the Downtown Line. Tekka Centre is the nearest large market and food centre. The name Tekka comes from a Hokkien phrase about the bamboo that once grew beside the Rochor Canal.

Key facts

  • Address: 53, 53A and 53B Chander Road, Singapore 219549

  • District: 8 (Little India, Farrer Park)

  • Property type: Conserved shophouse with apartments

  • Nearest MRT: Little India (NE7/DT12), Farrer Park (NE8)

  • MCST: 1780