Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi's House
Jelutong, George Town, Penang

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Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi is a renowned Muslim novelist and journalist around the turn of the 20th Century. Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi's house is along the Jelutong main road. He co-founded several Jawi magazines, including the Al-Imam (1906), Al-Ikhwan and Saudara (both in the 1920s). He authored the novel Hikayat Faridah Hanom (1926) which became a bestseller among the Malay public. In 1919, Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi became the headmaster of the Islamic school Madrasatul Mashoor Al-Islamiyah, a leading Islamic education centre in Southeast Asia.

This Chinese temple was once the home of Islamic reformist Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi.

Syed Sheik Al-Hadi's house was bought over by vegetarian nuns who used it as a temple serving vegetarian meals to the public on the first and fifteenth of each lunar month.