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 | | This beautiful palace was commissioned by Sultan Abu Bakar who laid the Foundation stone in 1864.One of the oldest building in Johore Bahru,The Grand Palace has a comospolitan architecture with clear Anglo-Malay influence.Today the palace assumes an additonal role as the Royal Abu Bakar Museum,displaying treasures of the Royal collection. |
 | | Officially opened by the late Sultan Ibrahim in 1980,this mosque is considered one of the finest in Malaysia.It took 8 years to complete at a cost of Rm400,000.Its architecture design and setting atop a hill with sweeping view of the Straits of the Johor makes this mosque a famed landmark. |
 | | This monument,created in the seafront opposite the the courthouse commemorates Sultan Abu Bakar (1864-1895), as the architect of the modern Johor.A bronze replica of the Johor crown surmounts the monument. |
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