My first local holiday since 6 years ago. This time to Malacca (Melaka) Historical City as well as one of the two UNESCO Heritage Site in Malaysia besides the city of Georgetown in Penang. This is my very first time in Malacca since I was born..hehe..I've always wanted to visit Malacca but there's no chance...Well here we are with my first blog post on Malacca's St Paul Church. The St Paul's Church was originally a small chapel built by a Portuguese Captain called Duarto Coelho in the year 1521 (about 10 years after the victory of Portugal against the Malacca Sultanate - 1511). The tower was added in the year 1590. When the Dutch took over Malacca, that's the year when this name St Paul's Church was used which lasted for about 112 years until the Christ Church was completed in the year 1753.
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| At the entrance of the Church |
Interior sections of the Church
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| Different view perspectives |
Several Tombstones around..can anyone read Portuguese?
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| That's me as a proof I was there.. |
If you are interested in history, perhaps you would search for Frau van Riebeck or John van Riebeck. Well I did! :) Actually John van Riebeck is spelled as Jan van Riebeeck and he was the founder of Cape Town, South Africa. He's the first Commander of Cape Town and he's the one who ordered the Fort of Good Hope to be built at the Cape of Good Hope. I've seen this fort personally at the Cape of Good Hope (Click the link if you're interested to know more and to view more photos of my visit)
more tombstones inside the Church
This was what could be seen on some tombstones
Another excavated tombstone
and money's being thrown into the excavated tomb....
External wall..very old indeed and eroded by time and weather..
Another perspective viewing up.
Well, that's all for now..hope everyone will enjoy some history shots here.
6 comments:
yays! Next round, i'll see myself there :)
St Paul Church is awesome...
Nice shots :) How is it possible you haven't visited Melaka for such a long time eventhough you live so close to it haha. I stayed in Melaka for 3 days/2nights.. a little bit too much.. there isn't that much to do besides the city centres VOC history and the hill with this church on top of it. Nice for a day trip though! :)
did u go makan makan.... i think malacca makes a great one day visit... historical sites + culture + food
The nearest St Paul's I've been to is in Macau & it's lovely.
Would love to visit Malacca again sometime soon.......
millymin: yup..let's go together
Mknight:yup sure it's awesome
erwin: yea..that's my first time.hehehe
lechua: yup..i went around makan2 and tried the cendol and chicken rice..the chendol really rox
blackswan aka shirley: you must see this one as well..but i have not seen the macau's version.
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