Telok Ayer Street appears in George Drumgoole Coleman's 1836 Map of Singapore as Teluk Ayer Street. The Chinese name for Telok Ayer Street refers to the Chinese temple on this street — da bo gong miao jie.
Telok Ayer Street was also known colloquially under two names. The area nearer Merchant Street was called Guan Soon Street because there was a firm located here called Chop Guan Soon that brought in Indian labourers. Guan Sun is also the name of one of the five divisions of Hoklos (Hokkien) which took part in the Chingay procession once every three years.
The other colloquial name for Telok Ayer Street is called the "front street" of Mah Cho Temple in Hokkien because the street is in front of the Thian Hock Keng Temple, dedicated to Goddess of the Sea, Mah Cho or Matsu.
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... In 1906, the Hokkien church became known as Telok Ayer Church ... Sullivan borrowed money and bought a piece of land at the junction of Telok Ayer Street and Cecil Street for $3,600. 1915, the congregation returned to the Telok Ayer Street site after a building made of wood and corrugated iron was built there for about $900 ...
... Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church (Chinese 卫理公会直落亚逸礼拜堂) is a Chinese Annual Conference Methodist church located in the Asian nation-city of Singapore ... at two locations, one (TA1) that is located along Telok Ayer Street near Chinatown in the Downtown Core, in Singapore's central business district and the other ... The main church building was completed in 1924 and its Telok Blangah church building in 2004 ...