Ampel is a town and an urban sub-district (''kelurahan'') in the Semampir District of

Surabaya Surabaya is the capital city of East Java Provinces of Indonesia, province and the List of Indonesian cities by population, second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. Located on the northeastern corner of Java island, on the Madura Strai ...

City,

East Java East Java (, , ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern ...

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. The town is known for its historic

Ampel Mosque Ampel Mosque (; ; ) is an ancient mosque located in the Ampel sub-district, district Semampir, Surabaya, East Java. The oldest mosque in East Java was built in 1421 CE by Sunan Ampel where his tomb complex is located within the area. Architectur ...

, and more than 98% of its population are Muslim, with many of them being

Arab Indonesian Arab Indonesians (), or colloquially known as Jama'ah, are Indonesian citizens of mixed Arab, mainly Hadharem from Yemen, and Indonesian descent. The ethnic group generally also includes those of Arab descent from other Middle Eastern Arabic sp ...

s originating from

Hadhramaut Hadhramaut ( ; ) is a geographic region in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula which includes the Yemeni governorates of Hadhramaut, Shabwah and Mahrah, Dhofar in southwestern Oman, and Sharurah in the Najran Province of Saudi A ...

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Kecamatan Semampir

Gallery

File:Ampel surabaya.jpg, Ampel district in the city of Soerabaya during East-Indies ruling COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Poort bij de Ampel Moskee in de Arabische wijk van Soerabaja TMnr 60037907.jpg File:Gerard Pieter Adolfs - 1934 Nr236 Arabische Kamp-Soerabaia OOC 35 45.jpg File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Arabische wijk met op de achtergrond de in 1872 gebouwde moskee Soerabaja Java TMnr 10014842.jpg COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De Ampel Moskee aan het einde van een winkelstraat in de Arabische wijk TMnr 60044096.jpg COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De Ampel Moskee aan het einde van een winkelstraat in de Arabische wijk van Soerabaja TMnr 60027325.jpg COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De Ampel Moskee aan het einde van een winkelstraat in de Arabische wijk van Soerabaja TMnr 60037908.jpg COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De Arabische wijk te Soerabaja Java TMnr 10013607.jpg COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De verzamelde Arabische gemeente van Soerabaja ter gelegenheid van de kroningsfeesten van Koningin Wilhelmina in 1898. TMnr 60003143.jpg {{E Java Populated places in East Java Sub-districts of Semampir Surabaya