Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 07:05 PM MYTA photograph of SMK Convent Bukit Nanas from 1998. — Picture courtesy of Badan Warisan MalaysiaKUALA LUMPUR, Apr 20 — Badan Warisan Malaysia has urged the authorities including the National Heritage Department to protect SMK Convent Bukit Nanas that could be forced to relocate as the historic school’s land lease was not being renewed.
“Convent Bukit Nanas, like all great schools and colleges in the world, possesses a legacy of fine educational traditions and architectural buildings,” BWM said in a statement today. “This recent decision by the Land and Mines Department poses a serious threat to the very existence of this heritage school that is more than 100 years old, in its present form and location,” it said,
It further noted that the school’s buildings built by the Public Works Department were designed by two government architects including one who was responsible for the Sulaiman Building on Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin and the Sultan Sulaiman Royal Mosque in Klang.