Looking again at the abandoned old mosque in Teluk Memali

Continued from Going to the tomb of Sultan Iskandar Zulkarnain through a palm estate.

Going closer to Kampung Gajah I then took another rural gravel road leading to this old mosque.

The location is at a place called Teluk Memali which is also besides the Perak river.

I understand there used to be a village around but it has been abandoned since 1997.

Teluk Memali is said to be flood-prone maybe because of some development upriver. So people moved to areas closer to the main road.

But once upon a time I understood the area was a major Malay settlement. But it has lost its function after the Perak river ceased to be a main way of transportation due to building of roads and existence of cars.

To tell you the truth this mosque is one my favourite place to visit whenever I'm nearby in Perak.

It has excuisite woodcarvings.

Too bad its not well looked-after.

I don't know how old is the mosque.

What I do know is the pulpit was built by a person named Megat Jaafar in the year 1339 Hijrah equivalent to 1920 AD.