MY · Melaka · 2.20°N 102.25°E

masjid kampung hulu

Melaka's oldest mosques, with tiered roofs and pagoda minarets, and putu piring in Tengkera.

Best time
Any time of year, in the morning between prayer times. Skip Friday midday, when the mosques fill up for Friday prayers.
How long
Half a day
Getting there
About 2 hours' drive from KL. Kampung Hulu and Kampung Kling are a short walk from Jonker Street; Tengkera is 5–10 minutes' drive west along Jalan Tengkera.
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Dear group chat,Melaka's oldest mosques, with tiered roofs and pagoda minarets, and putu piring in Tengkera.— gowherelahTo: whoever’s drivingMasjid Kampung HuluMY, Melaka
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≈ 122 km from KL, as the crow flies
Kampung Hulu Mosque, Melaka City, Central Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia

Photo: Chongkian · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each.

Masjid Kampung Hulu, built around 1728, is the oldest mosque in Melaka and one of the oldest in Malaysia. With Masjid Kampung Kling and Masjid Tengkera, it shows off the old Melaka style: stacked, Javanese-style roofs and minarets that look like pagodas. All three are within 10 minutes of each other, so they make an easy morning.

Makan

  1. Putu piringSteamed rice-flour cakes filled with gula Melaka. The family stall on Jalan Tengkera has made them for decades, and there's usually a queue.Map ↗
  2. Asam pedasMelaka's sour, spicy fish stew, at the Malay lunch shops around Kampung Hulu.Map ↗

Things to do

  1. Masjid Kampung HuluA three-tiered roof, a pagoda-style minaret built at the same time as the hall, and an old graveyard of preachers beside it.Map ↗
  2. Masjid Kampung KlingOn Harmony Street, built by Indian Muslim traders in 1748 and rebuilt in brick in 1872, with Sumatran, Chinese and Hindu touches.Map ↗
  3. Masjid TengkeraAlso from 1728, and once the state mosque. Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, who signed Singapore over to Raffles in 1819, is buried in its grounds.Map ↗

Good to know

  • Dress modestly and take your shoes off before the prayer halls; women should bring a scarf to cover their hair.
  • Putu piring is made to order and hardens as it cools, so eat it on the spot.
  • Park once by the river and walk between Kampung Hulu and Kampung Kling; the lanes are narrow.

Last checked October 2026. Things change, so check opening times, fees and transport before you go.