Panglima Kinta Mosque

The Panglima Kinta Mosque was built in 1898 with money from Dato Panglima Kinta Yusof, head of the Kinta district, and is considered the oldest mosque in Ipoh. Its white body with a blue dome and two tall minarets is kept in the Moorish-Mughal manner that British engineers readily applied in Malaya. It stands right by the Kinta River, on the edge of the old town, where the money from the tin mines flowed in at the end of the 19th century. The building has been renovated more than once, but the overall silhouette has survived from the time of its construction. Visitors are admitted outside prayer hours provided the dress requirements are observed.

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