The Indian Mosque is the oldest mosque in Sarawak, founded in 1837 by south Indian Muslim traders who had settled around what is now India Street. It was built of belian, Borneo ironwood, and it is small — a single prayer hall, low and timbered, without a dome or minaret.
What makes it memorable is the approach. The mosque is completely enclosed by later shophouses, and it is reached down a narrow covered alley barely wide enough for two people, running between shopfronts on Lebuh India. Thousands of people walk past the entrance every day without registering that it is there.
