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Cathedral of the Assumption
Farquhar Street, Georgetown, Penang Island, Malaysia Phone: (502) 582-2971About
The Church of the Assumption was founded when George Town was first settled in 1786. It was so named because the first group of Roman Catholic Eurasians from Kedah landed in Penang that year on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption. The Church moved to a temporary building in Farquhar Street in 1857 before the present building was built in 1861. The church organ was installed in 1916 and a concrete vault was introduced in 1928 in place of two rows of columns. The church was raised to the status of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Penang in 1955 before its cathedral status was transferred to the present Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Green Lane in 2003.
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