Mount Eden Prisons

Mount Eden Prisons consists of two separate facilities in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Mount Eden — the Mount Eden Prison and the Mount Eden Corrections Facility.

Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.

Type: Prison
Description: prison in New Zealand
Also known as: “Auckland Central Remand Prison”, “MECF”, “Mount Eden Corrections Facility”, and “Mount Eden Prison”
Address: Lauder Road

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St David’s Memorial Church, Auckland and Grafton railway station.

St David’s Memorial Church, Auckland

Community center

Photo: Itineris55, CC BY-SA 4.0.

St David's Memorial Church, Auckland is a former Presbyterian church on Khyber Pass Road in Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. St David's Memorial Church replaced an earlier wooden church and was constructed as a First World War memorial church. St David’s Memorial Church, Auckland is situated 440 metres northwest of Mount Eden Prisons.

Grafton railway station

Railway station

Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.

Grafton railway station is a station serving the inner-city suburb of Grafton in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located on the South City Line and Onehunga West Line of Auckland's passenger rail network and consists of an island platform located in a trench near the intersection of Khyber Pass Road and Park Road. Grafton railway station is situated 410 metres northeast of Mount Eden Prisons.

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Church

Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, commonly known as Holy Sep and Te Mīhana Māori, is an historic Gothic Revival Anglican church located on Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. Church of the Holy Sepulchre is situated 400 metres northwest of Mount Eden Prisons.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eden Terrace and Grafton.

Eden Terrace

Suburb

Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Eden Terrace is an inner city suburb of Auckland, located 2 km south of the Auckland CBD, in the North Island of New Zealand. Eden Terrace is one of Auckland's oldest suburbs, and also one of the smallest.

Grafton

Suburb

Photo: Oskari.miettinen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Grafton is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is named for the Duke of Grafton, a patron of the first Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson, and the grandfather of a subsequent Governor, Robert FitzRoy.

Newton

Quarter

Photo: Helenalex, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Newton is a small suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, under the local governance of the Auckland Council. Since the construction of the Central Motorway Junction in 1965–75, Newton has been divided into two parts, and as a result, lost much of its size and coherence.

Mount Eden Prisons

Category: government building
Location: Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-36.86748° or 36° 52′ 3″ south

Longitude

174.76601° or 174° 45′ 58″ east

Inception

1888

Open location code

4VMP4QM8+2C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 261493930

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=prison

Wikidata ID

Q15256768

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to French—“Mount Eden Prisons” goes by many names.

Egyptian Arabic: “سجون جبل ادن”
French: “prisons de Mount Eden”
French: “Prisons de Mount Eden”

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