Malacca CityPrayer Times in Malacca City, Malacca

Malacca (Melaka), on the Strait of Malacca on the west coast of peninsular Malaysia, was a major early center of Southeast Asian Islam and a key node in the spread of the Shafi'i school across the archipelago. The Sultanate of Malacca, founded around 1400 and Islamized within decades, became under sultans Mansur Shah and Mahmud Shah a regional emporium and the principal vector through which Sufi-inflected, Hadrami- and Indian-Muslim-mediated Islam spread through the Malay world before the Portuguese conquest of 1511. The Kampung Hulu Mosque, built in 1728 in the Dutch colonial period and rebuilt in the early nineteenth century, is among the oldest surviving mosques in Malaysia and exemplifies the distinctive Sumatran-Javanese tiered-roof Malay mosque type, as does the Kampung Kling Mosque of 1748 with its multi-tiered pyramidal roof. Today Malacca is a UNESCO World Heritage city with an active Malay-Muslim community and ongoing Friday-prayer culture in its historic mosques.