Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque (State Mosque)
Hilltop Victorian-style mosque with clock-tower minarets overlooking the strait toward Singapore.
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This guide to the Sultan Abu Bakar State Mosque in Johor Bahru follows the ruler behind it, Sultan Abu Bakar, the Anglophile often called the father of modern Johor. It moves from the year he moved his government to Tanjung Puteri to his friendship with Queen Victoria and the mosque he began in eighteen ninety-two. Listen from the hilltop edge facing the Strait of Johor, with the clock-tower minarets at your back.
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