Seremban Things to Do

Right in downtown Seremban, there is an impressive Catholic church building.

The history of this church started with French Missionary (MEP) visiting Seremban from Malacca in 1848. From an initial atap construction, the new church was built around 1899.

There are many Catholic churches built by French Missionary in large and small towns all over the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. This beautiful building in Seremban is one of them.

There is another attractive building - the Wesley Methodist Church in downtown Seremban.

It was built in 1915 with the support of then Seremban Chief Police Inspector Bailey. The early congregation were Chinese immigrants of Christian faith who can to Seremban area to work in the tin mining industry.

The Anglo-Chinese School of Seremban is located at the Church compound too.

Great news. The main post office is located just opposite the Seremban Train station.

Like all Post Office in Malaysia, it has been privatized under Pos Malayisa.Besides sending mail, one can pay online for all utitlies, car annual road tax or to major mobile phone and satelitte television subscription as well as for government trust fund payments.

There is a philatelic counter. While there is a number queueing for all the multi-purpose counters, no need to use queuing number to buy stamps or send parcels or registered mail. There is a separate counter and the line is short.

Postage to send a postcard within Malaysia is 30 sen and 50 sen for any country overseas.

Seremban Parade is one of the many shopping malls and hypermarkets in Seremban.

For Malaysian tourists, it is a popular place to go for air-conditioned environment shopping with easy parking when visiting a new town. There are food court for dining, supermarket to stock up drinking water or even buying local art and craft and souvenir items.

Seremban Parade is located just opposite the Seremban train station. You can even charged up your mobile phone for a small fee at one of the mobile phone outlets. The anchor tenant is Parkson Departmental Store.

The Municipal of Seremban (Majlis Perbandaran Seremban) has traditional Minangkabau features.

Minangkabau is a cultural region in Sumatra Island, Indonesia where the word itself originates from "kerbau" meaning the rice fleld cow with the pointed horns that are so important to the life of the farmers.

Seremban is one of the few State capitals that has not obtained city status yet. So the Municipal of Seremban is working hard to achieve city hood by 2009.

At Seremban Parade, just below the McDonald giant logo is a Chinese shrine.

Perhaps before this shopping mall was built there was a small temple or a giant tree where a spirit is worshipped by the local Chinese.

When the shopping mall was completed, the shrine was rebuilt so that the local Chinese can continue to pay their respects and pray.

Small Chinese shrines like this are found in urban areas or even in compounds of multi-national factories. To demolish completely and forget about these holy shrines will be courting unknown disasters for the new tenants - so goes the beliefs.

The State Mosque is built in 1970 era and located on a small hill top overlooking the Lake Gardens and downtown Seremban.

There are nine pillars which symbolizes the nine states (districts) of Negri Sembilan (which translated from Malay means "Nine states)

The mosque also have Minangkabau influence and have a great view from there. Like all Muslim mosques, tourists may not be able enter on the busy Friday prayers.

Right in downtown Seremban along Jalan Yam Tuan is the famous Hindu Temple.

Like all typical Hindu temple, there is a tower with statues of Gods and Goddesses as as important religious icons. One can visit any Hindu temples but do ask permission first and in most indoor places, you must remove your shoes. If unsure, if photography is allowed or not especially if there are ceremonies, just ask.

As photo shown, the tower has gotten a uniform saffron color coating. More colors will be added as the restoration or renovation process is completed. Often the Hindu priests and artisans may be from India.