A mosque from 1898
Built in memory of its founder's wife.
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One of Ipoh's oldest and loveliest mosques, built in 1898 by Dato' Panglima Kinta Muhamad Yusuff, then lord of the Kinta district, in memory of his wife Saaidah, who died that year. It stands near the Kinta River at the edge of the old town and was gazetted as a protected heritage building in 2012. The mosque is brilliant white with a blue dome and two white minarets capped by small blue domes, an elegant sight among the old shophouses. In its early years it was a centre of Islamic teaching for the area, with a religious school and a burial ground for the Panglima Kinta family added, and a scholar from Egypt is said to have lived and taught here. Entry is free; the mosque is open for prayer at prayer times, and non-Muslims visit from outside or outside prayer times in modest dress. The visit is short, a quarter to half an hour. It is the most convenient mosque for prayer during an old-town walk, a few minutes on foot from Concubine Lane and the Han Chin Pet Soo museum. The best photograph is from across the street in the morning light.
Built in memory of its founder's wife.
A blue dome and two white minarets.
Protected since 2012.
Jalan Masjid, old town near the Kinta River
Han Chin Pet Soo (Hakka Tin Mining Museum)Malaysia's first museum of the Hakka tin miners, in their old clubhouse at the e5 minutes walk
Ipoh Old Town and Concubine LaneIpoh's historic heart, a town built on tin wealth in the late nineteenth and ear7 minutes walk
Ipoh Railway StationOne of the loveliest railway stations in Asia, called the Taj Mahal of Ipoh by l12 minutes walkThe Panglima Kinta Mosque is closest, minutes from Concubine Lane; the large State Mosque near the railway station is at the other end of the walk.