
George Town Street View: An Ancestral Facade


The part where Noordin Street meets C.Y. Choy Road in George Town.
Originated as a small shrine along Noordin Street in George Town, the Tow Moo Keong temple is built as a place of worship for Tow Moo, a Chinese deity known usually as the goddess of the heavens. The temple features detailed sculptures of dragons and heavenly entities of the Chinese lore.


Heritage pre-war townhouses painted in orange color, in Noordin Street, George Town.
A trishaw resting by the roadside of a rather empty Downing Street during a bank holiday in George Town, Penang.
A wall art mural painted on one of the “Nine Shophouses of Kek Chuan Road” in George Town. The Nine Shophouses are a row of rejuvenated pre-war townhouses in Kek Chuan Road which are also painted with nine distinctive colors.
An art mural created by a freestyle artist named Craig Griffin for a cake house which is located along McNair Street, in George Town. The black and white art work depicts a couple in wedding attire looking out through a window, into the landscape beyond.
Lanterns decorating the Kapitan Keling Mosque Street during Chinese New Year festive period in George Town.