Khoo Kongsi
Good to know
- Best time to go
- Year-round; visit early in the day for softer light on the carved facade
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The grandest of Penang's Chinese clanhouses, tucked into a granite-paved square reached through narrow lanes off Cannon Street. Its early-20th-century temple hall carries an extraordinary weight of carved stone dragons, gilded woodwork and ceramic roof sculpture crafted by artisans from southern China. A small museum beneath the hall traces the Khoo clan's journey from Fujian to the Straits Settlements.
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