Named after Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al Haj, Masjid Putra with its trademark pink domes is one of Putrajaya’s popular landmarks. Surrounded by Putrajaya Lake and facing Putra Square – two other popular attractions in Putrajaya – the mosque was built between 1997 and 1999.
Constructed out of rose-tinted granite, which gives it an alluring pinkish hue, the mosque is modelled after the Persian Islamic architecture of the Safavid period, with some design elements borrowed from other mosques around the world. Its basement wall is reminiscent of the one in Morocco’s King Hassan Mosque, while its 116-metre minaret resembles that of the Sheikh Omar Mosque in Baghdad.
Putra Mosque consists of three main areas – a 12-column main prayer hall, a landscaped courtyard named The Sahn, and an area housing a religious learning centre and function rooms. The mosque can accommodate 15,000 worshippers at a time.
