Burmah Road Gospel Hall

Cantonese Methodist Church

Christ Church


Church of Our Lady of Sorrows

Church of the Holy Name of Jesus

Are you sure the last 3 pictures are Malaysian?

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Church of the Assumption


Church of the Immaculate Conception


Georgetown Baptist Church


Holy Trinity Church

Penang.
all the churches I'm posting now are from Penang.

bible college of malaysia

Largest church in South East Asia(bukit jalil)


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Church of Holy name of Jesus very impressive.

Jelutong Chinese Methodist Church

Madras Lane Chinese Methodist Church


Penang Baptist Church


Hokkien Methodist Church

Risen Christ Catholic Church

Seventh-Day Adventist Church

Church of St Anne

first time I drive past I was like holy shit

A few churches in Melaka very nice. The one just next to the Dutch red buildings.

What is your point

Which is the oldest church in Penang?

St George's Anglican Church



St John Britto Catholic Church

St Paul's Church
http://www.penang-traveltips.com/pics/st-p...george-town.jpg
The Salvation Army

Wesley Methodist Church

Showing a different side of Malaysia
Church of the Assumption

This isn't about religion, it's about history, and buildings. I'm a atheist, but I like a lot of the old churches.

hopefully 200-300 years from now those building will be historical sites and I'm guessing most people will laugh just like how we laugh at people worshipping the sun, trees, zeus, odin, volcanoes etc.

Nowadays churches can never look like the days of old. Something to do with govt ruling that new churches can't be build to look like actual churches in Western countries, instead must be warehouse look, hence the spaceship design of Calvary Church, it's about the take off, man. Any truth in this?

Trinity Methodist Church, Kuching


St John Cathedral, KL

Holy Rosary, KL

St Mary's Cathedral, KL

St. Peter's Church Melaka

St John's Church, Ipoh

Wesley Church, Seremban

yes. Most new churches nowadays just use shop lots.

I hope the same too, but also for Mosques.

Honestly, I prefer the old style architecture. That thing looks more like an abomination in my opinion.

what's so funny? I like the look of the old churches. I like how old historical buildings look.

praise the lord. beauty that's boundless, sign that Jesus is the only one true way over the rest

I'm Muslim but I think some of the churches are quite beautiful..muslim that burn churches are just zzz..desecrating religious places is a big no no in Islam..

St Michael's Church Sandakan

Holy Rosary Church.


St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church

The Lutheren Church, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur

St Thomas' Cathedral, Kuching


St Joseph's Cathedral, Kuching

St. Paul Chapel On The Hill, Kinarut

St. Michael Church, Penampang, Sabah

Masland Methodist Church, Sibu, Sarawak


Ching Kwong Methodist Church, Kuching, Sarawak

Lady of Lourdes Church Klang

Glory Christian Centre Kota Kinabalu

Dude and I am in awe everytime i drive by Shah Alam Mosque and moorish-design Masjid Sultan Sulaiman.

I prefer the look of mosques in the Arabian world to mosques in Malaysia. Mosque in malaysia looks too "modern"

The government encourages smaller churches to be nondescript, as in out of sight and out of mind. The bigger ones are showpieces as examples of Malaysian diversity. That doesn't prevent simple shop lots of being raided and inspected just in case they are being used for religious reasons. I've seen a letter from the local council certifying a thorough inspection had been done being framed in a shop because the owner was fed up of being accused using the premises as an illegal church.

it is also extremely difficult and takes a long time to try and get the proper paper work to start a new church, or to even begin constructing a new church building in church owned lands

Nope, completely not the same. And please stop using Bill Maher, that guy's a douche. Prefer someone like Dawkins and Penn Jillette.
I like the aesthetics of churches.

Tell me about it, I've helped a church to do the necessary paperwork for the land usage conversion and it took nearly 10 years.

Did you know that the Malay peninsular already had a church way before North America had anything?

The English colonists were already in NA in the 17th century

what?

I hear u bro. My dad is currently building one in Banting, just from planing to finish takes until now in it's 7th year. All gotto do with approval, we are at the authority's mercy really. Caused him sleepless nights dealing with red tapes.

You guys already know about it.

A good case would be the Church of Divine Mercy in Shah Alam. The project started in 1977.......only completed a few years ago. During that time, the government was a super troll.

http://www.divinemercyshahalam.com/history.htm

Some people call this subtle religious persecution. Indeed it is. Placing unnecessary barriers, hurdles, restriction to build a house of worship can be considered as denying one's right to worship.

inb4 muslim rage in this tered

fixed

already explained

can a non christian enter a church?

Also where is the infamous St Johns church in KL??

salah.........Burj Khalifah is the tallest building in the world....


Melaka fell in 1511. In 1521, a church was built. Though no longer in use, it was the first church not just on the peninsular but perhaps in SEA.

St Augustine in Florida was only founded in 1565.

of course

huh, I thought the first was the one in the 18th century in Malacca. But it's not really fair to say the NA natives had "nothing" though

never heard of it

keningau oldest church in sabah?

Heh, the place where young minds are fed with BS.

why when about christianity, always got people come in and say thing like this, but when thread about islam, all silent wan

Amazing, didnt think I'd see a medieval bricks building in Penang. Thank for sharing

You should check out the Gospel Hall if you ever go to Georgetown.

ah church, where teenagers join to pick up innocent chicks. the good ol days

Yes, of course. No need to ask orang asli, read SPM sejarah is enough if you have a critical mind. The malays before Melaka were essentially Hindus or Buddhists, like those in Bali today.

Our sejarah textbooks talked about Angkor Wat, Borobudor and then about majapahit, Srivijaya, Langkasuka, Gangga Negara....all these were Hindu or Buddhist states. However, they do not go beyond informing the reader of the existence of these kingdoms. Sejarah officially starts with Melaka. Have you realised that?

Of course, this is understandable. Anything that has got to do with the Malay identity and Islam is so politicised in Msia, it would be unfathomable to suggest that Malays/Malayan peoples were once Hindus, Buddhists or Animists.

Our historians/books/researchers don't seem to be interested in researching/talking about pre-melaka Malaya.

It's a different story in SG and Indon, from time to time, they have interesting exhibitions on pre-melaka SEA.


Of course.

Close to Masjid Jamek LRT station.

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This post has been edited by HuorEarfalas: Mar 2 2013, 01:17 PM

I live on the island

how you never notice?

Ok. The oldest Church in Msia is older than the oldest church in North America............

I am living here on a job for the last 6 months. So still unfamiliar

New huge churches are mostly Christian and don't follow those catholic architecture. Most churches register as a non profit organization and built on commercial land. There are 0 new license offered other than those existing during mahathir era . So most have to pay assessment at a commercial rate

Nice Tered.

*yawnnn* recruitment drive again? I wonder which 2" would sell their souls away based on a few pictah of architecture?

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Haha here comes planb2 with his annoying quote, try to be smart but kolos big time.

I think you mean Protestant, Catholics are Christians too.

malaysia baptist theological seminary in Batu Fringgi.


This post has been edited by Weldon29: Mar 2 2013, 01:44 PM

Or non-denom.

The term Protestant is strictly those communions that broke off during the reformation. Despite that, it's better to use the self-prescribed appellation of those communities. Lutherans, Baptist, Methodists etc

This post has been edited by feynman: Mar 2 2013, 01:48 PM

Protestants are Christians .... U must have learned from our sejarah text book which is wrong

waitt ill u see churches/chapels here in sabah/swk.

ull shit brick for sure, sometime it makes me wonder where were all those donation money went to

what? Protestants and Catholics both fall under the umbrella of Christianity

ya that would be more accurate

Protestants are Christians. You don't think so?

There are some churches that are not considered Christian by mainstream Christianity despite what they might claim to be. The LDS church and the JW's are some of the examples. I.e. the baptism carried out in these communities are not valid. That is to say if you were a mormon and then you became an anglican, you will need to be baptised. However, if you were a Baptist and you became a catholic later on, your baptism is valid.

Having Jesus Christ featured prominently in one's church doesn't mean it is Christian. The LDS view of Jesus is completely different from the 'mainstream' Christian view.

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Protestant movement started by Martin Luther I believe, King Henry was only responsible for the Anglican Church, which is almost identical to the Roman Catholic church.

tat is a convention senter... associated wth a lot of internal scandal whilst it was building..

Banyaknya theologian kat sini.

We haven't discussed any theological issues, only historic

Discuss la, nothing wrong to me, I also want to learn wat.

LOL

in the end they are still considered as Christians. just becoz 1 mazhab has too many differences in comparison with another mazhab doesnt mean that said mazhab is not part of christianity.

just like how orthodox christian is still considered as christian.

Salah on multiple fronts. henry merajuk sebab tak boleh cerai. Dia mau cerai Catherine of Spain to marry Anne Boleyn whom he had her executed later because (whatever version of history that you like) he fell in love with Jane Seymour. Basically Henry was a horny old geezer.

"Protestant' is the term which was probably given by the Catholic church to those who were protesting against catholic teachings. The protesters probably viewed themselves as reformers.

It's the Swiss Reformed Church, not the Swiss Protestant Church. You get it?

There is really only one version of that religion. Just many interpretations.


Deswai Anglicans are known as Catholic Lite. The only thing that changed then was that the 'final authority' was not in Rome but in London. The beliefs were all the same. Now of course things have changed a lot.

although i am not christian but i went there before~

that was the great dissapointment of 1844.. and your so-called "sect" studied the bible closely and was given the meaning of the "cleasing of the sanctuary".. in which the "sanctuary" was not referred to the earthly sanctuary but of heaven's.. thus God revealed alot more bible truths to this so-called "sect" that wasn't even deemed important by the rest of the denominations..

Where is this? How come I dunno wan?

if one mazhab claim themselves to be of christian even though they are being ousted by mainsteam christians, they are still christian.

it's called faith.

located inside garden of eden in the heart of borneo







/jk

This post has been edited by G_KeN: Mar 2 2013, 02:30 PM

No need.

If want to discuss, then go to christianforums.com
This is what you think. You and other people can audit and list out which community is Christian or otherwise. No one can stop you from doing that. Just as the LDS can say that they are Christian, no one can stop them from that. Whether this 'recognition' is extended by one's peers is another matter. This is precisely the situation that we are in now.

Anyone can start a university and say that it is a university, as to whether that 'university' is regarded as a university by other universities/governments/groups is another topic altogether.

Orthodox Christians is Christians.

The history of Christendom is really rich. Unfortunately, not many people care to know about it-which is fine if one doesn't have an interest. This would necessarily mean that one will only have an elementary knowledge of Christendom, frequently punctuated with 'I thought it was like this or like that' scenarios. Just an example, does anybody really know what papal infallibility means? The most common misconception is that whatever the pope says is infallible.....which is of course not true. Can't be blame, even some catholics believe that the pope confesses only to God, which is again wrong, the pope also has a confessor, who is just another priest like him.

wait, why are we arguing whether or not certain christian mazhab really are branches of christianity?

what differentiates these unrecognized branches of christianity of the recognized ones?

nevermind.

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No lah. Desway it's called the Church of England, with the sovereign as the head.

It's interesting to see history in action. Many people, especially the aristocrats, renounced catholicism and converted to anglicanism because it was to their interests. Commoners also did that because it was fashionable and it came with perks. That being said, many still practiced the 'old faith' in secret even though they were publicly anglicans.

Now contrast that to the communists in China. In China, no one actually believes in the communist cause anymore, but people still join the party because members can get privileges, like gahmen contracts, preferences treatments for loans or applications etc. You can see this in Msia too, be it on religious or political lines.

This is mainly a problem in the US, it happens in Malaysian churches too, but on a much smaller scale.

Last time I go China, I went to a underground house church for university students, a lot of them were party members

why are there getting more and more christian mazhab around the world?

heck even in malaysia some previously unknown ones like harvest church is getting more and more popular here.

where is St. Ann churches Bukit Mertajam photo

CHC is a charismatic church, so they are more daring in their conversion efforts and they are much more emotional which makes them easy to attract emotional vulnerable members of our society

I don't think you understand what I'm trying to get across. Let me just give you a concrete example.

A recognises B because in A's beliefs/teachings/understanding/universe/reality, B shares the core beliefs/teachings/understandings/universe/reality of A's. They differ only slightly in very non-core issues.

Then comes C. C has a core that is so different from A and B that when A and B examines C's core, they do no see any semblance to theirs and so do not consider C and part of themselves. C can of course tell A and B that I am just like you(A & B). A and B doesn't have to buy what C is saying right?

Have you done special relativity? Understand the concept of reference frame?

Now something more tangible. A core Christian belief is the belief in the Trinity. The LDS church doesn't believe in the Trinity. So even though the LDS considers itself as Christian. The other churches who believe in the Trinity do not consider the LDS as a Christian church.

If you are a muslim, you probably would find this example easier to understand.

The ahmadis consider themselves muslims, but the sunnis don't. One point of diversion is that. Mainstream muslims believe that Muhammad is the last prophet, that is a tenet in islam, no if's no but's. The ahmadis believe that the founder of their movement is a sub-prophet to Muhammad. You see where we are getting at now?



Temple.

Orang yahudi takda gereja punya.......

CHC is youth oriented. why are they only trying to attract youths?

youths more lively, have you been to a church filled with old people, the singing is just

Just like this BR1M. Saying this in Chinese,

rice still eat, wine still drink, money still take, election time, vote the opposition.

For the mainlanders, do/say whatever the party demands, then go home and say sorry to God.


Why are there more and more colleges/universities popping up in KL?

The church that took 2 decades to finally be built. Due to its location which is around shah alam industrial area it is said to look as a factory.