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 Located on Acheen Street, the
Acheen Street Mosque is also known as Masjid Melayu.
This tourist attraction
was built on land donated by Syed Sheriff Tengku Syed
Hussain Aidid, a trader who came from Aceh in Sumatra.
The 1820
mosque features a small window halfway up the
minaret which is said to have originally been a
hole made by cannonball fired during the 1867
triad riots and it is one of the many heritage
buildings here on the island. Permission to enter must be
obtained from mosque officials and it is most
crowded during the Hari Raya Aidilfitri
celebrations. The design seen at this mosque is
quite different to the other mosques seen in
Penang whereby a mixture of Acehnese
architecture was being incorporated together
with some distinct Indonesian design.
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