| VOP Code: | KSN211 |
| Category: | Photographs & Paintings |
| Scale/No.: | n/a |
| Title: | Tua Pek Kong Temple |
| Keywords: | Tanjong Tokong Rd, Religious site, |
| Features: | image taken: 1991-1993, Context: sited at the end of a rocky promontory next to the beach facing East in an old Chinese fishing village, Details: Tanjong Tokong is Malay for ‘cape of the temple’. The temple is used principally by Hokkien, Hakka Chinese, both have their own temples in George Town and on the full moon of Chinese New Year organise processions from George Town to Tanjong Tokong, Materials: Hokkien style temple with swallow tail roof, shard work decoration, Chinese temple roof tiles, granite, timber and masonry wall with painted red brick pattern. It also has early 1900s cement floor tiles, Penang Island, |
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Tua Pek Kong Temple
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