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槟榔屿龙山堂邱公司成立于1835年，坐落于大铳巷内，藏在被乔治市老街屋围绕的广场中。邱公司是合院建筑群，由祠庙、戏台、宗议所及周围的街屋所组成。前、后、侧有3个门道出入口，是非常特殊的聚落方式，为闽南同姓村移植到海外殖民城市的版本。早年居住在这里的都是来自福建漳州海澄县新安保新江社的邱氏宗族。邱公司就是族人的宗教、祭祀、福利与教育中心。

走入大铳巷，通入过街楼和两排19世纪的街屋，接着再绕过戏台便可见精致堂皇的龙山堂宗祠了，它伫立在花冈石铺成的广场上。龙山堂大殿由三部份所组成：前有抬高半层台基的拜亭，以八字开大阶梯连接到二层的主殿，左边连接单层闽南传统的护厝为厨房——馐馔所。二楼主殿可分为三堂，中为正顺宫，祭奉从原乡带来的乡土神——王孙爷与大使爷。右堂为福德祠，奉祀大伯公，左室则是供奉邱氏列祖列宗的祠堂——诒谷堂。

龙山堂大殿的石雕，木雕，瓦作剪粘还是彩绘，都是闽南建筑匠艺上乘之作。墙上有精雕细琢的青石、白石雕。步口有盘龙柱，檐下梁架作双面木雕。屋顶为五彩缤纷的剪黏和泥塑等等，皆是充满寓于教化和趋吉避凶的图案故事。中堂和后廊上的大型壁画更令人叹为观止，有三十六官将、九老图、百子千孙、八仙图等，皆是保留完好的清末民间艺术，堪称马来西亚国宝。

龙山堂邱公司于1996年进行戏台修复工程，后于1999至2001年间再进行主体建筑大修，皆聘请文思古建工程队，依照正确且严格的古迹修复原貌。当中包含多项工程项目，主要为屋顶全面重铺瓦作，修葺剪黏脊饰，梁枋彩绘和安金，后廊和底楼之壁灰和画假砖，还有拜亭和底楼铺呎砖和六角砖等。此修复案亦荣获了2001年马来西亚建筑师公会古迹修复奖。

The Leong San Toong Khoo Kongsi is a Penang Chinese clan association founded in 1835. The revered clanhouse at Cannon Street is a Chinese quadrangle comprising ancestral hall, temple, stage, office and domestic shophouses. It lurks behind massive blocks of shophouses, hidden from plain sight and was made accessible from three inconspicuous access portals at its front, rear and side. Such architectural congregation is a unique variation of the original Hokkien ancestral village in China. The clanhouse has been the religious, worship and education centre for the clansmen until this day, who are the descendants of the early migrants from Sin Kang Seah in Sin Aun Village of Sam Toh District, Chiang Chew Prefecture, Fujian, China.

To arrive at the magnificent ancestral temple of Khoo Kongsi, one has to tread through an alley which is disguised as a shophouse in Cannon Street, then through an internal street lined by two opposite rows of nineteenth-century terraced shophouses and finally swirls around the temple stage for a complete view of its entirety. The ancestral temple of Khoo Kongsi could be divided into three parts: the front part is an elevated prayer pavilion, which connects to the prayer hall and the left annex which serves as the kitchen and dining hall. The main hall itself houses smaller worship halls, enshrining various deities and the clan ancestors.

The sculptural and paint works within the main hall of Khoo Kongsi are the epitomes of Hokkien building crafts and artistry. The walls feature some of the most meticulous stone carvings. At the verandah, bold granite columns with state-of-the-art dragon carvings were erected to support carved timber beams above them. On the roof, colourful jian nian and stucco works tell pictorial stories of the past. The central hall and the rear corridor feature some of the most awe-inspiring mural paintings which date to the late Qing period.

Wensi Heritage was commissioned twice, in 1996 and from 1999 to 2001, to restore the stage and the ancestral temple. During the major restoration in 1999, the team worked extensively on multiple areas. Roofs were completely retiled and porcelain shards sculptures on the roof ridges were repaired. The team also repainted and re-gilded the timber trusses and beams. Walls at rear corridor and ground floor were re-plastered and the dados were finished to the original false brick render. The floors at prayer pavilion and ground floor were also retiled with square and hexagonal terra-cotta tiles. The restoration of the ancestral temple was then awarded the National Architecture Award for Conservation by Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM) in 2001.