The Shah Alam Blue Mosque

Dome of the Shah Alam Blue Mosque at night (CNB 2012)

My first encounter with this beautiful blue mosque was way back when I was a librarian in USM (Pulau Pinang) and was in Selangor for the International Association of School Librarians' Conference in early 1989. At the time it had just been completed (March 1988) but with some foreign delegates, we were taken there for a visit to this biggest mosque in Malaysia, and 'second biggest mosque in Southeast Asia'. It is reputed to have the world's tallest minarets at 142.3 m, and biggest dome with a diameter of 51.2 m. (But now superceded by other mosques).

A view of the Blue Mosque at dusk (CNB 2012)

This state mosque, officially known as the Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, is strategically located in the Shah Alam City Centre. Now that we live in Shah Alam, this mosque is special to us.