Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Yahudi Monument

This time our lecturer : Mr.Wan Burhanuddin ,give us a chance to travel Penang ,to find the Yahudi Monument or Penang Jewish Cemetery....

Penang Jewish Cemetery,established in 1805, is believed to be the oldest single monument of Yahudi in Malaysia....The descendants of Malaysian Jews are mainly seen in Singapore, they are also many of them in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and USA but their numbers are unknown.

Jewish Cemetery,located at Jalan Zainal Abidin , formerly is Jalan Yahudi...This place near with Komtar, between Jalan Burmah and Macalister Road can arrive there by taking bus....



On the way finding Jalan Zainal Abidin.....



Finally,we found it...this 2picture below,hard to take,because i need stand on centre of the road,while i found many driver feel we were crazy....



arrive Jewish Cemetery.....



while wait the guardian of Jewish Cemetery keep their dog away......




Proven monument Yahudi.....


The Yahudi Monument.....i think more than 1oo....




this Indian auntie is the guardian at Jewish Cemetery....she explain to us about history of this place....according she say ,the guardian of this Jewish Cemetery from generation to generation,she become guardian since his father died.....become the guardian doesn't have any salary or any benefit ,the government doesn't give them any incentive,just let them live at that place FOC.....they just depend on some money given by tourist.....so they not the rich guardian.... the auntie also say she doesn't saw or haunted by the roh or ghost ,since they live here more than 50year....




this is the guardian house....


beside the monument from people,we also found the military cemetery.....


we found many type of monument.....duno the owner are male or female.....



this is the captain monument and his grandson monument.....the auntie say the captain granson died because of accident.....




the group picture....


on the way back USM....

besise visit the Jewish Cemetery,we also require to design our own monument.....
so,this is my monument....simple,just like the bamboo growth on the land......



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