Northgate is an informal, district of
neighborhoods in north urban
Seattle,
Washington named for and surrounding
Northgate Mall, the first covered mall in the
United States. Its east-west principal arterials are NE Northgate Way and 130th Street, and its north-south principal arterials are Roosevelt Way NE and Aurora Avenue N (
SR 99). Minor arterials are College Way-Meridian Avenue N, 1st, 5th, and 15th avenues NE.
Interstate 5 runs through the district. Besides
the eponymous mall, the most characteristic distinctions of the area are
North Seattle College (NSC), the south fork of the
Thornton Creek watershed, and the Sheikh Abdul Kadir Idriss Mosque, also known as "Sheikh Idriss Mosque" or "Islamic Idriss Mosque".