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TAIPING
the town of everlasting peace
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Old Saints Church, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia.
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| The first Anglican
church in the Malay States opened in 1886. The timber building was designed
by G.A. Lefroy and the site donated by W.V. Drummond, a planter from Shanghai.
In 1898, the graveyard was already "much besprinkled with the tombstones
of many a young man stricken down in the heyday of youth, or British official
who, after spending the best years of his life in the service of the State,
has failed to gain his pension, and now lies buried here..."
The church is situated along Jalan Taming Sari (Formerly Main Road) opposite the prison. |
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