Built in 1912, the school was named for Syed Ahmad Alsagoff, a wealthy Arab merchant and philanthropist who was very influential in Singapore's early colonial days and who died in 1906. It is the oldest girls' school in Singapore, and was the island's first Muslim school.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Singapore & Malaysia, 6th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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