Bidadari Cemetery

Bidadari Cemetery (Malay: Perkuburan Bidadari, lit. Cemetery of the Angels, Chinese: 比达达利坟场) is a defunct cemetery in Singapore. It used to serve the Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sinhalese communities, and accepted burials between 1907 and 1972. The site of Bidadari Cemetery used to be Istana Bidadari, the home of Che Puan Besar Zubaidah, who was the second wife of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor Istana.

This article is about the defunct cemetery that is once located in Toa Payoh, Singapore. For the estate which the site of the cemetery was once located at, see Bidadari, Singapore.

Bidadari Cemetery
Gates of Bidadari Cemetery in the 1930s
Details
Established1 January 1908
Closed31 October 1972
Location
Bidadari, Toa Payoh
CountrySingapore
Coordinates1°20′7.53″N 103°52′19.21″E
TypeHistoric, Municipal
Size26 hectares (260,000 m2)
No. of graves147,000 (Approx.)

The cemetery accepted its last burial in 1972. By 2006, all known graves were exhumed to make way for development of the Bidadari Estate.

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