Universiti Sains Malaysia & Gelugor

This photo journal features two areas south of Georgetown, on the way to the airport - USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia) located on a scenic hillside overlooking Penang Bridge, plus a Hindu Temple & Mosque/cemetery in Gelugor. It continues the 'island' series of several journals that features sights I found or revisited on my ramblings around the island.

"USM - Universiti Sains Malaysia",
the Sungai Dua entrance with the attractive campus mosque on the left....

The mosque
The founding of USM dates back to 1962 when it was suggested that a...

Striking golden onion domes.
The original enrolment of 57 science based students has now grown to...

Prayer hall view
USM, one of four research-intensive universities in Malaysia, is well-known...

closer

colorful entrance

ablutions area

Some of the buildings on campus

Another of many
This is a very large campus & I only saw a small part of it. Here's a...

another one, in b/w
I had a bad light day so I grey-scaled this one.

View looking back towards the entrance
& the high rises in town.

Hillside view
In addition to this main campus, USM has two others - an engineering...

Metal mobiles at the School of Art
That's where I met a group of young women practicing a play. They...

The batik painting exhibit
in the art gallery, the main reason I came.

Malaysia batiks tend to feature
nature, ie birds & flowers etc.... whereas Indonesian batiks often...

another sampling

GELUGOR - Hindu temple
I had spotted this colorful temple many times when riding the bus, so...

closer

Horses & chariot, through the fence
The temple was locked up but I was able to reach through the fence to...

closer view

Nearby mosque
The color green has a special place in Islam & has been associated with...

Muezzin tower
Note the loudspeakers. The muezzin of a mosque is the chosen official...

The mosque cemetery
The unique cylindrical grave markers in the Muslim cemeteries I saw in Penang...

Universiti Sains Malaysia & Gelugor

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