Other sights in Melaka
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8 Hereen Street
Run by the Heritage Trust of Malaysia, this 18th-century Dutch period residential house was restored as a model conservation project. The friendly host will show you around and describe what era each style of the building came from (some as far back as the Portuguese occupation) and what life would have been like inside its walls over the centuries. The project was partially chronicled by Lim Huck Chin and Fernando Jorge in their beautifully designed coffee-table book Voices from the Street, which is for sale at the house along with other titles on historical Melaka. You can also pick up an Endangered Trades: A Walking Tour of Malacca’s Living Heritage (RM5) booklet and…
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Masjid Kampung Hulu
The oldest functioning mosque in Malaysia, this was commissioned by the Dutch in 1728. The Portuguese had destroyed all non-Christian establishments during their occupation, but the Dutch had different colonisation tactics and decided to help the locals rebuild their places of worship instead. The resulting mosque is made up of predominantly Javanese architecture with a multitiered roof; at the time of construction, domes and minarets had not yet come into fashion.
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Maritime Museum
Housed in a huge re-creation of the Flora de la Mar, a Portuguese ship that sank off the coast of Melaka, the Maritime Museum merits a visit. Clamber up for a detailed examination of Melaka’s history via faded and dated props. The museum continues in the building next door with more absorbing exhibits featuring local vessels plus an assortment of nautical devices.
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Kampung Kling Mosque
This hoary mosque has a multitiered meru roof (a stacked form similar to that seen in Balinese Hindu architecture), which owes its inspiration to Hindu temples, and a Moorish watchtower minaret typical of early mosques in Sumatra.
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Sultanate Palace
Housing a cultural museum, this wooden replica of a Melaka sultan’s palace is based on descriptions, from the Malay Annals, of the original 15th-century palace, built entirely without nails.
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Sri Poyyatha Vinayagar Moorthi Temple
One of the first Hindu temples built in the country, this temple was built in 1781 on the plot donated by the religiously tolerant Dutch and dedicated to the Hindu deity Vinayagar.
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History & Ethnography Museum
The extensive History & Ethnography Museum has a number of historical re-creations as well as displays of Chinese and Malay art, weapons and ceramics.
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