The District Six Museum occupies a former Methodist mission church on Buitenkant Street. Its floor is dominated by a large, hand-painted map of the former District Six, where former residents have inscribed their names and the locations of…
District Six Memory Trail
This walk traces the surviving heritage landmarks of Cape Town’s District Six, where a vibrant community was forcibly removed under apartheid. You will visit resilient churches, mosques, and exhibition spaces that kept the neighborhood's spirit alive through decades of displacement.
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1. District Six Museum
2. Homecoming Centre
The Homecoming Centre is a complex of five interconnected buildings located at fifteen Buitenkant Street in Cape Town. You can identify it by the nineteenth and twentieth century warehouse structures that incorporate a remnant of an…
3. The Old Granary
The Old Granary stands at the corner of Buitenkant and Longmarket streets, distinguished by neoclassical stonework and sculptures of Neptune and Britannia on its corners. Designed by architect Louis Michel Thibault and constructed between…
4. Zeenatul Islam Mosque
The Zeenatul Islam Mosque stands on the corner of Chapel and Muir Streets in District Six, identifiable by its minaret and the dome rising above the neighborhood. It began in nineteen oh six as a small prayer room at number three Muir…
5. Al Azhar Mosque
The Al Azhar Mosque is the oldest mosque in the area once known as District Six, a neighborhood largely cleared of its residents during the apartheid era. While it shares its name with the famous mosque in Cairo, this local institution has…
6. St. Mark's Anglican Church
St. Mark's Anglican Church is a stone building on a hill in the area once known as District Six. Established in eighteen sixty-seven, the church is marked by a porch added in nineteen hundred to the designs of the architects Baker and…
7. Moravian Chapel
The Moravian Chapel on Russel Road sits in the area of Zonnebloem, formerly known as District Six. Its profile is marked by a simple, gable-fronted facade that faces the street. Known historically as the Moravian Hill congregation, this…