St Paul's Church, Melaka

A historic church building originally built in early 1500 by the Portuguese nobleman as an act of gratitude for surviving from a storm in the South China Sea. It's the oldest church building in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. The place where it's located is called St Paul's Hill, which forms part of the heritage museum area. It's a 5 minute walk up to the hill. The building looks abandoned and tourists are free to walk around inside. Within the building, there are several historical tombstones, records of people with Dutch ethnicity who lived in Malacca and some of Portuguese ethnicity from an earlier period. Within the covered area, there is a fenced around of an open grave which used to be buried with Catholic missionary St Francis Xavier's body after he passed away and his body was later shipped to Goa. In front of the ruined building, there is a now-defunct lighthouse, which consists mainly of a lantern and gallery mounted on an arched base and is solely accessible from ground level via a small ladder from the 1800s. There is also the statue of St. Francis Xavier right in front of the lighthouse.

St. Paul's Church Lighthouse also known as Malacca Light and it's located in St. Paul's Church, Bukit Melaka, Bandar Hilir, Malacca, Malaysia. The Malacca Light is an inactive lighthouse in Malacca City built with Watch Tower that's overlooking to Malacca River and the sea strait. An additional beacon in year 1849 by British for ships travelling along the Strait of Malacca. The lighthouse was eventually deactivated, the functionality diminished further as to Malaccan Harbour underwent land reclamation d uring the late 20th century. This building's now becomes a partial of Malacca City attractions.