Wednesday, September 15, 2010

House of Worship


MASJID SULTAN AHMAD SHAH,KUANTAN

This magnificent grand mosque in the city centre of kuantan, the capital of pahang state, was completed in 1993. It is named after the historical Sultan Ahmad Shah Al'Mu'adzam Shah, who founded pahang's current royal family in 1890. This mosque faces the city's wide municipal field, a welcome open green area surrounded also by other important and Heritage from the colonial to the modern era and is a tourist attraction with the mosque as centrepiece.

The mosque is built in a modernized Ottoman-Moorish Islamic style with four rocketlike minarete and a large half-round decorated flanked by four smaller domes. The interior is airily spacious with minimum pantitions, able to easily fit in more than 8000 worshippers during the friday congregational prayers.

Coordinate : latitude=3.807778, longitude=103.3278

It was constractude between 1991 and 1993 by DZJ architect and associates when it was completed, it face numerous problems including water leaking from the roof but was eventually repaired.

Situated near Jalan Masjid in centre of kuantan. located near Wisma Sri Pahang building, it is the largest mosque in pahang with 180 feet tall minarets.




me and my friend....