Acheen Street Mosque
Lebuh Aceh Mosque is a 19th-century mosque built by the Acehnese situated on Acheen Street, George Town, Penang, Malaysia. Next to the mosque lay the cemetery of the mosque's original benefactor, Tengku Syed Hussain Al-Aidid and members of his family.Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Mosque
- Description: mosque in George Town, Penang, Malaysia
- Also known as: “Lebuh Aceh Mosque” and “Masjid Lebuh Acheh”
- Wheelchair access: no
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Penang Islamic Museum and Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang.
Penang Islamic Museum
Museum
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY 2.5.
The Penang Islamic Museum is a museum about Islam in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. Penang Islamic Museum is situated 140 metres north of Acheen Street Mosque.
Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang
Museum
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang formerly called the Sun Yat-sen Penang Base, is a museum in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The museum is dedicated to Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese nationalist who established the Republic of China after his efforts in the Xinhai Revolution. Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang is situated 150 metres north of Acheen Street Mosque.
Kapitan Keling Mosque
Mosque
The Kapitan Keling Mosque is a mosque built in the 19th century by Indian Muslim traders in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. It is situated on the corner of Buckingham Street and Pitt Street. Kapitan Keling Mosque is situated 300 metres north of Acheen Street Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include George Town and Sungai Pinang.
George Town
Photo: Gp song, CC BY-SA 3.0.
George Town is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang. It is Malaysia's sixth largest city, with a population of about 708,000, with 1.7 million in the metro area, as of 2020.
Sungai Pinang
Quarter
Photo: arches, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sungai Pinang is a residential neighbourhood within the downtown core of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. The neighbourhood lies along the southern bank of the Pinang River and is bounded by Jalan Sungai Pinang to the south.
Taman Free School Flats
Neighborhood
Photo: Vnonymous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taman Free School is a residential neighbourhood within the downtown core of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. It is named after the nearby Penang Free School. Taman Free School Flats is situated 3 km southwest of Acheen Street Mosque.
Acheen Street Mosque
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Daerah Timur Laut, Penang, West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.41442° or 5° 24′ 52″ northLongitude
100.33613° or 100° 20′ 10″ eastOpen location code
6PQ2C87P+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 264411523OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noWikidata ID
Q6511449
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Acheen Street Mosque” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسجد ليبوه اتشيه”
- Chinese: “打石街清真寺”
- German: “Lebuh Acheh Moschee”
- German: “Masjid Lebuh Acheh”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Lebuh Acheh”
- Macedonian: “Џамија Аебух Асех”
- Macedonian: “Џамија Лебух Ачех”
- Urdu: “مسجد لیبوہ اچیہ”
- Uzbek: “Lebuh Aceh masjidi”
- Western Panjabi: “مسجد لیبوہ اچیہ”
- “Masjid Lebuh Acheh”
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