Three-tiered roof
A Malay style without a dome.
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One of Malacca's oldest and loveliest mosques, built in 1728 of timber brought from Kalimantan and restored and renewed several times since. It was Malacca's main state mosque until the Al-Azim Mosque opened in 1990. Its style blends Malay, Chinese and Javanese elements: a three-tiered pyramidal roof of clay tiles over a square base instead of a dome, and a white, multi-tiered minaret like a Chinese pagoda, a rare feature among Malaysian mosques. Inside are timber columns and a carved, gilded wooden minbar. In the mosque's grounds is the tomb of Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, who in 1819 signed with the British the agreement on which modern Singapore was founded, and who later moved to Malacca and died there in 1835. The mosque welcomes visitors outside prayer times in modest dress; avoid Friday midday. Combine it with the Kampung Kling and Kampung Hulu mosques on a tour of Malacca's old pyramid-roofed mosques.
A Malay style without a dome.
Carved timber in the prayer hall.
Signatory of the Singapore agreement.
Jalan Tengkera, about two kilometres west of Dutch Square
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