Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum
Hilltop royal burial ground of Johor's sultans, blending Victorian, Moorish and Malay styles.
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This guide to the Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum in Johor Bahru follows Abu Bakar, the Anglophile ruler who renamed a riverside settlement Johor Bahru and counted Queen Victoria as a friend. It starts in a London hotel room in the spring of eighteen ninety-five, where a Malay sovereign lay ill far from his capital. The polo, the Windsor visits and the change of title from Maharaja to Sultan all turn up. Best heard standing at the mausoleum gate, facing the tombs.
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