Why pilgrims come
Discover what makes Minor Basilica of St. Anne, Bukit Mertajam a place of pilgrimage
Malaysia's great St. Anne pilgrimage center, where a ten-day July novena and feast draws roughly 200,000 pilgrims and celebrates Mass in several of the country's Catholic languages.
Make St. Anne's the principal northern Malaysia pilgrimage. The sanctuary joins an 1846 hill chapel, the 1888 shrine church, and the large modern basilica within one active devotional campus.
The sacred connection
People and objects remembered here
These relationships are part of the destination record, with feast days and catalog qualifications shown where available.
What to notice
Look closely at the place and its story
Minor basilica
Join the living multilingual parish and pilgrimage liturgy.
Historic hill shrine
Trace devotion from the nineteenth-century Chinese Catholic settlement.
Ten-day July feast
Experience one of Southeast Asia's largest Catholic pilgrimages when the annual program permits.
Feasts, anniversaries & celebrations
How to read this page
Sources, tradition, and what is verified
No verification date is listed, so current visitor details should be confirmed directly.
This page records the site’s tradition as “Catholic.” That wording describes the nature of the claim and keeps devotional tradition distinct from independently verified history.