Historic royal building built in the 1850s

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Rahimah Rashith

• Gedung Kuning was built to be the residence for the bendahara or chief minister of the Malay Royal Court in the 1850s.
• In 1912, Haji Yusoff Haji Mohamed Noor, a respected belt merchant of Javanese descent and a known pioneer of the Malay community, purchased the mansion.
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