Kapitan Keling Mosque
Golden-domed mosque with a slender minaret, built on land granted to a Chulia trader captain in eighteen oh one.
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This guide to Kapitan Keling Mosque in Penang Island traces the eighteen acres the British governor granted a Chulia trader captain named Kapitan Keling in 1801, on the condition the ground stayed a mosque forever. It follows what happened to that promise as roads, homes and a market ate into the land after his death in 1834, while an architect named Henry Alfred Neubronner rebuilt the mosque in Mughal revival style decades later. Look up at the golden dome and slender minaret as you listen.
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