The Putra Mosque (;
Jawi: ) is the principal
mosque
A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard.
Originally, mosques were si ...
of
Putrajaya
Putrajaya (), officially the Federal Territory of Putrajaya (), is the administrative centre of Malaysia. The Seat of government, seat of the Government of Malaysia, federal government of Malaysia was moved in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajay ...
,
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
. Construction of the mosque began in 1997 and was completed two years later.
It is located on
Putra Square and is adjacent to man-made
Putrajaya Lake.
The pink-domed Putra Mosque is constructed with rose-tinted
granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
and consists of three main functional areas – the
prayer
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hall, the Sahn, or courtyard, and various learning facilities and function rooms. The mosque can accommodate 15,000 worshippers at any one time.
On 25 June 1999, Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad (; ; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author and doctor who was respectively the fourth and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and from 2018 to 2020. He was the ...
went to Putra Mosque for prayers.
Photo gallery
Masjid Putra - Main Prayer Hall.jpg, The main prayer hall.
Putra Mosque Spire.jpg, The patterned dome of pink and white granite tiles is a distinctive feature.
See also
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Islam in Malaysia
Islam in Malaysia is represented by the Shafi‘i school of Sunni Islam, Sunni jurisprudence.
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List of tallest minarets
This is a list of the tallest minarets in the world. It ranks minarets by their height.
The tallest minaret in the world is the minaret of the Djamaa el Djazaïr in Algiers, Algeria which stands at 265 metres (870 ft).
List of tallest minare ...
References
Mosques in Putrajaya
1999 establishments in Malaysia
Mosques completed in 1999
Mosque buildings with domes in Malaysia
20th-century architecture in Malaysia
Mosque buildings with minarets in Malaysia
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