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TAIPING the town of everlasting peace
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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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