Dato Keramat Road, George Town

Dato Keramat Road is a major thoroughfare in the city of George Town within the Malaysian state of Penang.

[1] In Arabic, the term 'Keramat' means a holy person or place, thus the name 'Dato Keramat' may have also referred to a Muslim shrine located within that settlement.

[2][3] Tin from Perak and southern Thailand was shipped to George Town, and then transported to the facility to be smelted into ingots for re-export via the Port of Penang.

Dato Keramat Road was also known as the place where the founding father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, once resided.

[1] The stadium, along with Padang Brown across the road, was where some of the best Malaysian football players in the 1960s and 1970s, who also represented Penang, played and trained.

View of Dato Keramat Road, as seen from Penang Times Square .
The City Stadium at Dato Keramat Road is one of the oldest stadiums in Malaysia .
Penang Times Square now stands on the site where a tin smelting facility once existed.
Nagarathar Sivan Temple
Dato Kramat Market