Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan (The Federal Territory Mosque)
Ottoman-Malay mosque with twenty-two cascading domes, twin minarets, and a surrounding moat.
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This guide to the Federal Territory Mosque in Kuala Lumpur traces a design choice: echoing Istanbul's Blue Mosque four centuries later, with twenty-two cascading domes and twin minarets built between 1998 and 2000. It follows how Ottoman grandeur was folded into a Malay sensibility, down to the hand-carved wooden doors and their geometric patterns. The government had already built forty-three mosques within the city before this one went up beside its moat.
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