Penang St. George’s Church

Penang St. George’s Church

St. George’s Church is the oldest Anglican church in Southeast Asia and is located in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. It was completed in 1818 on the initiative of the Penang Colonial Chaplain, Rev. Robert Sparke Hutchings (who also went on to found the Penang Free School) and consecrated on 11 May 1819 by the Bishop of Calcutta, Thomas Fanshawe Middleton.

St.George’s Anglican Church is another congregation that is as old as Penang. The columns of the portico made it look like a Grecian temple. The church has come to be a symbol of religious harmony in Penang, coexisting with other religious edifices along the intersecting Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling.

On 6 July 2007, the church was declared one the 50 National Treasures of Malaysia by the Malaysian government.