Attractions of Melaka

Melaka - World Heritage City, of the Strait of Malacca

The historic center of Malacca was inscribed on the World Heritage List on 7th July 2008 alongside with George Town.

waterfront by Lisbon Hotel, Portuguese Settlement, Hilir Melaka

A trishaw, somewhere near the Stadhuys

RM40/hour.

The Stadhuys

Stadhuys, literally mean 'town hall' in Dutch. Once a center of the Dutch administration in Malacca, it was built between 1641-1660 on the ruins of a Portuguese fort, by using bricks imorted from Zecland.

It is supposed the oldest remaining Dutch historical building in the East, now a Museum of History and Ethnography.

Neighbouring The Stadhuys are : Christ Church, Queen Victoria's Fountain and Malacaa Clock Tower.

Malacca Clock Tower

The clock tower was built in 1886 in honour of a successful Chinese tycoon Tan Beng Swee.

Christ Church

Christ Church is an Anglican church, also the oldest functioning church in Malaysia. It is within the jurisdiction of the Lower Central Archdeaconry of the Anglican Diocese of West Malaysia.

It was constructed in 1741 by the Dutch, and was completed in 1753.

When the British took over Malacaa in 1838, the church was was re-consecrated with the rites of the Church of England by the Rt. Rev. Daniel Wilson, the Anglican Bishop of Calcutta and renamed Christ Church.

The church houses hand-crafted benches; jointless ceiling skylights; a copper replica of the Bible inscribed with the passage from John 1:1 in Dutch; a headstone written in the Armenian language; and a replica of The Last Supper.

Originally painted white. the church and the neighbouring Stadhuys building was painted red in 1911.

Gallery of Admiral ChengHo

St. Paul Church
Constructed by a Portuguese captain, Duarte Coelho in 1521, this church was originally named "Our lady of The Hill".

In 1548, the Archbishop of Goa in India handed over the church to the Jesuits.

The body of St. Francis Xavier was interred here temporarily in 1553 before it was taken to Goa.

The church was later renamed "St. Paul's Church" by the Dutch.

It is now part of the Malaccan Museums Complex.

.statue of St. Francis Xavier

A' Famosa

Means 'The Famous' in Portuguese.

Constructed by the Portuguese, under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque in 1511.

Suffered severe structural damage during the Dutch invasion.

When the British took over, the fotress was ordered to be destroyed, in 1806. fortunately in 1810, when Sir Stamford Raffles happened to visit Malacca, stopped the demolition, saved the remaining structure of the fortress' gate, Porta de Santiago.

Church of St. Francis Xavier, Jalan Bandar Kaba

Built in 1849 by Rev. Fave, a Frenchman, this Gothic-towered church is dedicated to St. Francis Xavier.

River of Malacca

Night Market, Jalan Hang Jebat, a.k.a Jonker Street