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< Merdeka Square > At the southern end of Merdeka Square, Lebuh Pasar Besar runs over KL's busiest bridge, connecting the Colonial District with the commercial sector. Just north of here, on a promontory at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers, stands KL's most attractive devotional building, the Jame Mosque. It's a site replete with significance, since it was here - on a section of dry land carved out from the enveloping forest - that the pioneers from Klang searching for tin in the 1850s, established a base that soon turned into a boom town. The mosque itself formed part of the second great period of expansion in KL, completed in 1909 by the British architect A.B. Hubbock, and incorporating features he had copied from Moghul mosques in North India - pink brick walls and arched colonnades, topped by oval cupolas and squat minarets. There's an intimacy at work here that isn't obvious at the much larger national mosque (which replaced the Jame as the centre of Muslim faith in KL), and the grounds, bordered by palms, are a pleasant place to sit and rest. The main entrance is on Jalan Tun Perak. Leave a Comment Directions: Head south down Jalan Benteng, over the junction with Lebuh Pasar Besar, and you reach the Art-Deco Central Market (daily 9am-10pm). Backing onto Sungei Klang, this large pastel-coloured brick hangar
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