Batu Caves (,

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: பத்துமலை) is a mukim and town in

Gombak District The Gombak District is an administrative Districts of Malaysia, district located in the eastern-central part of the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The district was created on February 1, 1974, the same day when Kuala Lumpur was declared a Federal T ...

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. Named after the limestone caves and Hindu shrine

Batu Caves Batu Caves is a 325-m tall mogote with a series of limestone caves in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located about north of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The cave complex contains many Hindu temples, the most popular of which is a shri ...

, the town is experiencing an increase in residences due to a housing boom in the center of the city.

History

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outlet opened in 2003 and closed on 11 January 2025 due to end of lease period.

Townships and villages

*Taman Jasa *Taman Pinggiran Batu Caves *Taman Industri Bolton *Kampung Indian Settlement *Taman Amaniah *Taman Batu Caves *Taman Selasih *Taman Samudera *Taman Desa Bakti * Taman Desa Minang *Taman Ehsan *Taman Koperasi Polis *Astana Gemilang *Perkampungan Melayu Seri Gombak *Taman Selayang *Taman Seri Selayang *Kampung Melayu *Kampung Baru Batu Caves *Kampung Laksamana *Kampung Nakhoda *Kampung Bendahara *Kampung Lalat *Kampung Sungai Kertas *Kampung Datuk Karim *Taman Gombak Permai *Selayang Mulia *Selayang Mutiara *Kampung Melayu Sri Wira Damai

Places of Worships

temple *Tiong Yee Temple (忠义庙) *Chee Choy Kong Temple (自在宫) *Xian Fa Shi Gong Temple (仙法师公古庙) * Al-Amaniah Mosque *Surau Al-Kahfi *Surau Al-Ubudiah
Masjid Al-Khairiyah
*Surau Al-Ikhwan

Education

The housing boom in the town has led more residents to move into the town and led to the need for more new schools.

Kindergartens

* Private ** Tadika Setia Kasih ** Tadika Disney ** Tadika Islam Sayidina Abu-Bakar As-Siddiq ** 3Q MRC Junior Taman Sri Gombak * Public ** Tabika Kemas Perkampungan Melayu ** Tabika Kemas Taman Seri Gombak

Primary schools

Currently, there are only six primary schools in the town. * Public ** Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Seri Gombak ** Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Seri Gombak 2 ** Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Samudera ** Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Selasih ** Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil) Batu Caves ** Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Taman Selayang (1) ** Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Taman Selayang (2) ** Sekolah Rendah Islam Saidina Abu Bakar As-Siddiq

Secondary schools

* Public ** Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Seri Gombak ** Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Hillcrest ** Sekolah Menengah Taman Selayang ** Sekolah Menengah Seri Selayang

Current developments

Several new business centre have opened at the town heart and have raised the overall land-value. The development of the new-mosque has boosted the land-value of the surrounding area at Taman Sri Gombak near the Tasik Taman Seri Gombak besides simplify the citizens and students to go to mosque for pray.

Gallery

Image:Bantu Caves Malaysia 2006-02-11.jpg, Batu Caves temple as seen from Lord Murugan statue Image:Batu Caves station artist impression.jpg, Batu Caves train station that is expected to be developed soon

Transportation

Public transport

The main rail station serving Batu Caves is the Batu Caves Komuter station, opened in 2010 as part of the refurbishment of the Sentul-Batu Caves branch line. The station is on the . rapidKL and Selangor Omnibus buses serve this town.

Car

Batu Caves is located right next to the

MRR2 Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2 or Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2 Scheme), Federal Route 28, is a ring road built by the Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR) to connect neighborhoods near the boundary of Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur ...

Federal Route 28. The interchanges to

East Coast Expressway The East Coast Expressway (ECE; Malay language, Malay: , ''LPT'') is an interstate controlled-access highway running parallel to the northeastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The currently operational segment of the expressway runs through Karak ...

(which goes to

Kuantan Kuantan (Pahang Malay: ''Kontaeng''; Terengganu Malay: ''Kuatang/Kuantang'') is a city and the state capital of Pahang, Malaysia. It is located near the mouth of the Kuantan River. Kuantan is the Largest cities in Malaysia, 12th largest city ...

and

Kuala Terengganu Kuala Terengganu (; Terengganu Malay language, Terengganu Malay: ''Kole Tranung''), colloquially referred to as KT, is the administrative, economic and royal List of capitals in Malaysia, city of the state of Terengganu, Malaysia. Kuala Tereng ...

) and

Duta–Ulu Klang Expressway Duta–Ulu Klang Expressway (DUKE, E33), is the main expressway network in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The expressway connects New Klang Valley Expressway's Jalan Duta Interchange (E1) to Taman Hillview Interchange on Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road ...

(which leads to

Mont Kiara Mont Kiara, often stylized as MK, is an affluent suburb at the northwest of downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in the constituency of Segambut. It consists mainly of high-rise residential condominiums and office complexes which were mostly devel ...

and

Segambut Segambut is a sub-district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The federal constituency represented in the Dewan Rakyat is Segambut (federal constituency). From the high-end condominiums of Mont Kiara and Sri Hartamas to the middle-class areas of Tam ...

) are located nearby.

Politics

Batu Caves is part of the Gombak

parliamentary constituency An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

, currently represented by

Amirudin Shari Amirudin bin Shari (; born 8 February 1980) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 16th Menteri Besar of Selangor since June 2018, Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sungai Tua since May 2018 and Member of ...

Parti Keadilan Rakyat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR; ), is a centre-left, reformist political party in Malaysia formed on 3 August 2003 through a merger of the party's predecessor, the National Justice Party, with the socialist Malaysian People's Party. The party's ...

. Batu Caves is covered by the Sungai Tua constituency in the

Selangor State Legislative Assembly The Selangor State Legislative Assembly () is the unicameral Dewan Undangan Negeri, state legislature of the Malaysian Malay states, state of Selangor. The State Assembly is composed of 56 members representing single-member constituencies througho ...

, currently represented by

. He is also the current

Menteri Besar head of government, Heads of government in Malaysia's many states of Malaysia, states take on various titles. Seven out of nine in the Peninsular Malaysia, Peninsular who each have Monarchies of Malaysia, historical monarchs are known as the Men ...

of Selangor.

References

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