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The area has a number of tourist destinations, including the Bukit Mertajam Market and the nearby Hock Teik Cheng Shin Temple. The latter is a Taoist temple, which was constructed in 1886. [4] At the time, the temple owned much of the land within the town centre and was responsible for the development of the Bukit Mertajam Market.
Jit Sin School was originally a free school offered by Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple (福德正神庙) in 1894 at Market Street, Bukit Mertajam, Penang. [1] The institution's building was several two-story shop lots opposite the Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple in Pek Kong Cheng. The school is now shops of Sin Guan Lee and Kong Chan at the corner lot.
This is a list of shopping malls in Malaysia. (Note: ÆON BiG, Billion, E-mart, Econsave, Giant Superstore, Mydin Emporium, KIPMall, Sunshine and Lotus's are categorised as hypermarkets and thus not listed in this article and meanwhile The Sabah KK Skybridge and Anjung Kinabalu officiated as shopping centre by 2023 Sabah government due to its multipurpose infrastructure.)
The company was founded in April 1998 in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, [4] [5] with the name generated by accident when the founder's brother called his nephew, "naughty-boy" which sounds like "Rotiboy". [4] In 2002, the company migrated to Wisma Central, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.
The granite megalith is located at the foot of Bukit Mertajam, within the compound of the St Anne Church. [2] The inscriptions were believed to be in pre-Pallava script and written in Sanskrit. They were attributed to the ancient Kingdom of Kadaaram, which flourished in northern Malaysia in the 5th to 6th centuries.
It is located 160 kilometres from Ipoh and 10 kilometres from Bukit Mertajam, while with the expressway, it is 335 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur and 90 kilometres to Alor Star. People drive onto the Seberang Jaya highway flyover to go down to the capital after coming out of Permatang Pauh Interchange.
By the time of the relocation of the Seberang Perai Municipal Council from Butterworth to Bukit Mertajam in 2006, the town's infrastructure had deteriorated extensively. In 1988, the passenger platform of the town's ferry terminal collapsed , costing 32 lives, while in 2001, a fire destroyed a three-storey bus station near the ferry terminal.
Serving as a bypass from the city centre, Song Ban Kheng Road was built in 1999 outside Bukit Mertajam to cater for traffic from Bukit Tengah to Maju Jaya. It was named after Song Ban Kheng, who had been the principal for Jit Sin High School for about 20 years and was a state assemblyman for the former state constitute Pekan Bukit Mertajam in 1983.