Heritage Trails :: Queenstown Trail :: True Way Presbyterian Church

Across from the Queenstown MRT station stands the True Way Presbyterian Church. The church originally started in Tras Street in 1939 through the work of a pastor, Reverend Tan Leng Tien from Fujian, China. Reverend Tan had arrived in Singapore as a Christian missionary in 1918.

In 1956, the church started fund-raising for its own premises in Queenstown in response to the SIT's advertisement of available religious sites in the new satellite town. The Church was completed in 1961 at a cost of $82,000. Many early members of the congregation were not residents of Queenstown, but coolies and their families from Tras Street in Chinatown as the church started from there. As with the other churches, services were conducted in Hokkien. In 1997, an extension was added to accommodate the growing congregation. This new hall is notable for the absence of central pillars in its construction.