All Saints' Church, Taiping, Anglican church building in Taiping, Malaysia.
All Saints' Church is a timber church on Taming Sari main road in Taiping, Perak, with a Gothic design. Its walls are meranti panels set in hardwood frames, and a louvered tower holds four tubular bells. A small cemetery adjoins the building.
Funds for a clergyman's stipend were arranged at a meeting chaired by Col. R.S.F. Walker in 1883. The church was founded in 1886 and consecrated in 1887, making it the first church in the Federated Malay States. Australian architect G. A. Lefroy designed it, and planter W.V. Drummond donated the site.
The cemetery reflects the presence of early European settlers and servicemen through individually crafted tombstones that remain scattered across the grounds. These graves tell stories of people who made their lives in the region during colonial times.
The church stands on Taming Sari main road on the outskirts of Taiping, with the cemetery beside the building. The louvred tower and timber walls are original fabric, so visitors should keep to the paths and avoid touching the meranti panels. The pipe organ is played only on special occasions, not at every service.
The building houses one of Malaysia's few surviving original pipe organs, which continues to function and receive regular maintenance. This rare instrument represents a musical connection to the colonial era when such organs were more common in churches across the region.
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