Ipoh Town Hall
Ipoh Town Hall has been the venue of many significant events. This stately colonial building with strong calssical elements was designed by government architect Hubback who also designed the Ipoh Railway Station. Throughout the century, the Town Hall have seen many people from various backgrounds and expertise utilising, and walking up and down, its hallways. The Indian poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore once addressed a meeting of Perak's English and vernacular school teachers here in the late 1930s. The Malay Nationalist Party, the first political party formed in Malaya, held its inaugural congress in the Ipoh Town Hall from November 30 to December 3, 1945, attended by more than 300 people from all over Malaya. From 1948, the Town Hall served as the district police headquarters for some years. This building also served as a Post Office, and was once the District Police headquarters in 1948.
Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Photo credit: © John Lander / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: architecture, british, british-colonial, building, city, colonai, colonial, hall, heritage, ipoh, malaysia, malaysian, town
