Kampung Baru, Village in a City

KL cityscape, Kg Baru in the foreground (CNB 2013)

Recently I was in Kampung Baru, the 'village' right smack in the centre of Kuala Lumpur, the oldest Malay residential area founded in 1899. I had not been in a very, very long time and remain quite intrigued by its environs as a next-door neighbour of the Golden Triangle of Kuala Lumpur.

Although there are still some interesting traditional Malay houses around, I guess it is inevitable that many have given way to concrete buildings. We could view the Kuala Lumpur skyline from a balcony of one such building in Kampung Baru. The mosque at the junction of Jalan Raja Alang dan Jalan Raja Abdullah (built in 1924) was also easily identified from 'above'.

The Mosque, Kg Baru (CNB 2013)

3 March 2013