St Mary's Cathedral

This guide to St Mary's Cathedral in Kuala Lumpur opens with a wartime mystery: a set of stained-glass windows hidden from the Japanese occupation and never recovered, replaced only in 1955. It traces the cathedral's 1895 consecration as the first brick church in the native Malay states, and an unlikely donor, the non-Christian Kapitan Yap Kwan Seng. The guide also follows its Henry Willis organ, first bought for a British official's private home before the church acquired it years later.