Place of worship
Batu Caves
Gombak, 68100 Batu Caves, Selangor
Limestone cave complex housing ancient Hindu temples, topped by a towering golden deity statue.
This guide to Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur begins in 1888, when a Tamil merchant named K. Thamboosamy Pillai stood at a limestone cave mouth and saw the shape of a Hindu deity's sacred spear. It follows how that reading turned the cave into a temple within a few years, and traces the pilgrimage it launched by 1892 up through the cathedral cave carved deep inside the mountain over four hundred million years. Climb the two hundred and seventy-two steps to reach the entrance.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.