Architecture sights in Georgetown
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Eastern & Oriental Hotel
The Eastern & Oriental Hotel dominates the seafront end of Jln Penang. Originally built in 1884 as the Eastern Hotel, it became so popular that the following year it was expanded and renamed the Eastern & Oriental Hotel. The stylish E&O was the archetypal 19th-century colonial grand hotel, established by two of the famous Armenian Sarkies brothers, Tigram and Martin, the most famous hoteliers in the East, who later founded Raffles Hotel in Singapore.
In the 1920s the Sarkies promoted the E&O as 'The Premier Hotel East of Suez' (a catchy phrase the brothers later used to advertise all their hotels) which supposedly had the 'longest seafront of any hotel' in the world, at 8…
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Khoo Kongsi
The kongsi, or clanhouse, is a major node of overseas Chinese communities. Clanhouses and assembly halls are both the civic and religious backbone for many overseas Chinese, and the most impressive one in Penang is the Khoo clanhouse, or Khoo Kongsi, also known as Dragon Mountain Hall.
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Khoo Kongsi
The kongsi, or clanhouse, is a major node of overseas Chinese communities. Clanhouses and assembly halls are both the civic and religious backbone for many overseas Chinese, and the most impressive one in Penang is the Khoo clanhouse, or Khoo Kongsi, also known as Dragon Mountain Hall.
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