Kapitan Keling Mosque is the largest mosque in Georgetown and one of Penang's landmarks.
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Built in 1801 by Penang’s first Indian Muslim settlers, the Indo-Moorish structure was named after the ‘kapitan’ of the Keling (a leader of the South Indian
community), Cauder Mydin Merican. The whitewashed mosque is topped with large golden-yellow Mughal-style domes,
crescents and stars and features a single, typical Indian-Islamic minaret from
which the sound of the azan (call to prayer) can be heard.
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