In the 1970s, the old city centre underwent redevelopment under the government’s urban renewal scheme. New structures built as part of the renewal scheme included the Golden Mile Tower (right background) and Woh Hup Complex (centre background), both completed in the 1970s along the ‘Golden Mile’ stretch of Beach Road. Alongside these new developments stood older structures such as the Sultan Mosque (centre foreground) along North Bridge Road. The original structure of the mosque, known in Malay as ‘Masjid Sultan’, was built between 1824 and 1826 under the patronage of Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, who acquired funds for the project from the East India Company as part of the treaty arrangements that allowed the setting up of a British trading settlement in Singapore. The mosque underwent a major reconstruction in 1928 and was gazetted as a national monument in 1975.
