The Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum ( ms, Makam Diraja Mahmoodiah) is a Royal Mausoleum of

Johor Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan ...

located at Bukit Mahmoodiah in Jalan Mahmoodiah,

Johor Bahru Johor Bahru (), colloquially referred to as JB, is the capital city of the state of Johor, Malaysia. It is located at the southern end of Peninsular Malaysia,along the north bank of the Straits of Johor, opposite of the city-state Singapore. T ...

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. The first Sultan of Johor buried here was Sultan Abu Bakar in 1895. Besides that, the founder of UMNO, Dato' Onn Jaafar (died on 1962) was buried next to his father, Dato Jaafar bin Muhammad's grave (died in 1919).

Architecture

The Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum was built in 1895. The mausoleum architecture is a combination of Victorian,

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and local

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styles.

List of graves

Sultan graves

Sultan of Johor

* Sultan Sir Abu Bakar ibni Almarhum Temenggong Daeng Ibrahim Sri Maharaja Johor ''(died: 4 June 1895)'' * Sultan Sir Ibrahim Al-Masyhur ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar ''(died: 8 May 1959)'' * Sultan Sir Ismail Al-Khalidi ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Ibrahim Al-Masyhur ''(died: 10 May 1981)'' * Sultan Iskandar Al-Mutawakkil Alallah ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail Al-Khalidi – 8th

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(1984-1989) ''(died: 22 January 2010)''

Other Sultans grave

* Sultan Ismail Muabidin Riayat Shah ibni Almarhum Raja Thith Hitam (Marhum Mangkat di

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) – 25th

Sultan of Perak The Sultan of Perak (سلطان ڤيراق) is one of the oldest hereditary seats among the Malay states. When the Sultanate of Malacca empire fell to Portugal in 1511, Sultan Mahmud Syah I retreated to Kampar, Sumatra, and died there in ...

(1871-1874) ''(died: unknown date)'' – exiled from

Perak Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ...

after the assassination of

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JWW Birch James Wheeler Woodford Birch, commonly known as J. W. W. Birch (3 April 1826 – 2 November 1875) was a British colonial official who was assassinated in the Malay state of Perak in 1875, an event that led to the outbreak of the Perak War and ...

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on 2 November 1875.

Sultanah/Consort graves

* Sultanah Fatimah ''(died 1891)'' * Tunku Maimunah binti Almarhum Ungku Abdul Majid ''(died 1909)'' * Sultanah Rogayah ''(died 1926)'' * Sultanah Aminah binti Almarhum Ungku Ahmad ''(died 1977)'' * Enche' Besar Khalsom binti Abdullah ''(died 2018)'' * Tunku Zanariah binti Almarhum Tengku Ahmad ''(died 2019)''

Royal family graves

Johor Royal Family

* Ungku Abdul Majid bin Temenggong Tun Daeng Ibrahim ''(died 1889)'' * Ungku Abdul Rahman bin Ungku Abdul Majid ''(died: unknown date)'' * Ungku Abdullah bin Ungku Suleiman ''(died: unknown date)'' * Ungku Ali bin Ungku Ahmad ''(died: unknown date)'' * Ungku Haji Abdul Rahman bin Ungku Abdul Majid - Naib Yang di-Pertua Majlis Ugama Islam Negeri Johor ''(died: unknown date)'' * Ungku Hasanah binti Ungku Abdul Majid ''(died: unknown date)'' * Ungku Ismail bin Ungku Abdul Rahman ''(died: unknown date)'' * Tunku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail – Tunku Aris Bendahara Johor ''(died: 12 July 1989)'' * Ungku Esah binti Ungku Abdul Majid'' (died: 7 September 2014)'' * Tunku Maimunah binti Almarhum Sultan Ismail ''(died: 11 July 2012)'' * Tunku Tan Sri Dato' Osman bin Almarhum Tunku Temenggong Ahmad – Jumaah Majlis DiRaja Johor (Johor Royal Court Council) President ''(died: 6 July 2014)'' * Tunku Miriam Sultan Ibrahim - daughter of Sultan Ibrahim al-Masyhur ''(died 2014)'' * Tunku Abdul Jalil ibni Sultan Ibrahim – Tunku Laksamana Johor ''(died: 5 December 2015)'' * Ungku Yusoff bin Ungku Abdul Rahman - Jumaah Majlis Diraja Johor (Johor Royal Court Council) Advisor ''(died: 29 July 2020)''

Other royal family graves

* Raja Mahadi bin Raja Sulaiman (

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east ...

) – Chieftain of Klang,

during

Klang War The Klang War or Selangor Civil War was a series of conflicts that lasted from 1867 to 1874 in the Malay state of Selangor in the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Malaysia). It was initially fought between Raja Abdullah bin Raja Jaafar, the admini ...

(1849-1850) ''(died: unknown date)'' – exiled from Selangor after defeat in the war on 1850.

Leaders graves

Dato' Menteri Besar of Johor

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– First Menteri Besar ''(died 1919)'' * Dato' Onn Jaafar – UMNO first president ''(died 1962)'' * Tan Sri Hassan Yunus – First elected Menteri Besar ''(died 1968)'' * Tan Sri Othman Saat – Eleventh Menteri Besar ''(died 2007)''

Other leaders

* Dato' Muhammad Salleh Perang – Dato' Bentara Luar (Architect of Development Johor) ''(died 1915)'' * Dato' Suleiman Abdul Rahman – First

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

''(died 1963)'' * Dato' Abdul Rahman Yassin – First

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''(died 1970)'' * Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Jumat – 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Singapore ''(died 1978)'' * Tun Dr. Awang Hassan – 5th

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''(died 1998)''

Non-leaders grave

* Dato' Sayyid Alwi Thahir al-Haddad – Former Mufti of Johor ''(died 1962)'' * Tan Sri Zainon Munshi Sulaiman (Ibu Zain) – Malayan woman political, nationalist and educational ''(died 1989)'' * Tan Sri Anwar Abdul Malik – Malayan political figure ''(died 1998)''

References

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