Cipaganti is a leafy 1920s residential neighbourhood on the slopes north of Bandung Station — built originally for Dutch civil servants and still one of the most pleasant parts of the city to wander. The streets are quiet, the houses largely intact, and the gardens overflowing with frangipani and bougainvillea.
The Masjid Cipaganti, designed in 1933 by Charles Wolff Schoemaker, is the centrepiece: a perfectly preserved colonial-era mosque that blends Mughal, Sundanese and Art Deco influences. Three-tiered roof, red-tile floor, white walls — easy to walk around outside even if you cannot enter the prayer hall.