Khoo Kongsi Photo Gallery - Upstairs

Your base for this sight is the city of Penang. For useful travel tips about Penang, visit Penang Travel Tips for the most detailed documentation of sights and attractions in Penang. To read about the tourist attractions in Penang, go through the George Town and Penang. For budget accommodation in Penang, use the Penang Budget Accommodation Map to find suitable places to spend the night.

The main stairway takes us to the three main halls.

The walls of the front corridor are covered with intricate carvings.

An ornamental windows is adorned with carvings depicting Chinese legends.

Another view of the front corridor to the main halls, with its intricately carved wall reliefs and columns.

The Hall of the Ancestors with the altar where ancestors tablets, called Sin Choo Pai, are placed. On the walls are plaques of Khoo clansmen who have distinguished themselves in academic excellence or public service.

Another view of the wall plaques in the Hall of the Ancestors.

The Sin Choo Pai are arranged in rows according to their generation.

The Sin Choo Pai or ancestral tablets are arranged in rows according to their generation.

Every inch of the clan temple is richly ornamented, even the roof, with its carvings and lanterns.

View of the columns that hold up the roof of the clan temple.

In the Central Hall of Khoo Kongsi, Cheng Soon Keong, is the Ong Soon Tai Sai altar, dedicated to the clan's patron saints, Ong Soon (The Nobel), and Tai Sai (The Great Duke).

The walls of the Central Hall are adorned with ink frescoes depicting the 36 heavenly bodyguards riding fantastic beasts.

The latticework on the timber panels in the Central Hall is exquisitely intricate.

Lanterns and worship paraphernalia hangs from the ceiling.

The latticework of the Central Hall panels.

Members of AsiaExplorers join me in the visit to Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi. The door plaque reads Leong San Tong, right to left.

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