National Mosque of Malaysia
Modernist mosque with a 16-pointed concrete umbrella roof, serving up to 15,000 worshippers.
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This guide to the National Mosque of Malaysia turns on a 1958 meeting of Malaya's Chief Ministers, who wanted to name the country's new national mosque after independence leader Tunku Abdul Rahman. He refused, calling it instead a gift of thanksgiving. It follows the young Malaysian architects who designed the sixteen-point umbrella roof and the seventy-three-metre minaret, and the mix of faiths and communities who funded and built it together.
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