Qualla: Changi Chapel and Museum https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/1/z/changi-chapel-and-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Changi Chapel and Museum https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum Changi Chapel and Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum/ Photo credit en:User:Cfitzart, CC BY-SA 3.0. Arthur Westrop wrote 400 pages to a wife who would not read them for years. Every entry in his hidden diary was addressed to her, in Africa, while he sat behind the walls of Changi. Sergeant John Ritchie Johnston smuggled in a Kodak Baby Brownie camera his wife had given him and kept it concealed from his captors for the entire three and a half years of his imprisonment. These were not acts of resistance in any military sense. They were acts of refusal -- refusal to let captivity erase the people they had been before the fall of Singapore.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/1/z/changi-chapel-and-museum-wp/w21z-changi-chapel-and-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Changi Chapel and Museum: The Fall and the March https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum/ Photo credit en:User:Cfitzart, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 15 February 1942, the British surrendered Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army in what Winston Churchill later called the worst disaster in British military history. What followed was a forced march. Approximately 48,000 soldiers and civilians -- men, women, and children --...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/1/z/changi-chapel-and-museum-wp/w21z-changi-chapel-and-museum-the-fall-and-the-march.mp3 0:06 2 full Changi Chapel and Museum: What They Built Inside the Walls https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum/ Photo credit Aldwin Teo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Japanese did not restrict their prisoners' religious activities, and the internees seized that narrow freedom. Using scrap materials and converted buildings, they constructed multiple chapels within and around the prison. Among the most significant was St George's Church, the...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/1/z/changi-chapel-and-museum-wp/w21z-changi-chapel-and-museum-what-they-built-inside-the-walls.mp3 0:06 3 full Changi Chapel and Museum: Objects That Survived https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum/ Photo credit en:User:Cfitzart, CC BY-SA 3.0. The museum today holds 114 artifacts, most donated by former prisoners and their families. Beyond Westrop's diary and Johnston's camera, visitors encounter a section of the original Changi Wall, the matchbox Morse code device, Bateman's watercolors, and Warren's murals. A re-crea...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/1/z/changi-chapel-and-museum-wp/w21z-changi-chapel-and-museum-objects-that-survived.mp3 0:06 4 full Changi Chapel and Museum: Three Lives of a Museum https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum/ Photo credit Aldwin Teo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Singapore first built a museum and replica chapel beside Changi Prison in 1988. When the prison expanded in 2001, the chapel and museum relocated one kilometer away, and the Changi Chapel and Museum was officially established on 15 February 2001 -- the anniversary of Singapore's ...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/1/z/changi-chapel-and-museum-wp/w21z-changi-chapel-and-museum-three-lives-of-a-museum.mp3 0:06 5 full Changi Chapel and Museum: The Eastern Shore https://qualla.com/changi-chapel-and-museum/ Photo credit Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changi sits at the far eastern end of Singapore, at 1.3622 degrees north, 103.974 degrees east -- closer to the runways of Changi Airport than to the towers of Marina Bay. From the air, the area reads differently from the dense urban core to the west: lower buildings, more green ...

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