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http://sultan.perak.gov.my/english/istana_kenangan.htm

The "Memory Palace" (Istana Kenangan), is build mainly of wood.  It is also known as Istana Lembah and occasionally as Istana Tepas.  Located south-east of Istana Iskandariah, it was planned and built in 1926, after the Great Flood.

the carpenter who build the palace was Haji Suffian who, with his children, came from Seberang Perai.  The architecture of the palace is based on the shape of a sword.  The walls are made of woven sliced bamboo in a diamond shaped pattern (kelerai) and the roofs are in the shape of "five ridges of a traditional Malay house and the ridge of a row bananas" (perabung lima dan perabung pisang sesikat).  The design and the craftsmanship adopted in the palace construction reflected the fine art of Perak Malay handicraft.

When the palace was completed in 1931, Sultan Iskandar Shah (1918-1938) the 30th Sultan moved to this palace because the official palace at time time, Istana Negara, was to be demolished and the new palace to be build was to be on its site at Changkat Negara, Bukit Chandan.  The new palace is the present Istana Iskandariah.

The construction of Istana Iskandariah was completed in 1933 and Sultan Iskandariah Shah moved into it while other members of the family went to stay in the Istana Lembah which later became known as the Istana Kenangan.It has now become the Royal Museum of Perak.