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Georgetown Sights

Penang Islamic Museum

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The Penang Islamic Museum is housed in a restored villa that was once the residence of Syed Alatas, a powerful Acehnese merchant of Arab descent, and later a recycling depot (really) of the Indian Chettiar community. Today it holds a wordy exhibition on the history of Islam in Malaysia and Penang, along with some 19th-century furniture. The main event is an upstairs life-sized diorama of a dock scene that depicts a maritime-oriented haj (pilgrimage to Mecca).

 

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