Architecture and Features
It originally caters up to 3,500 people, but after expansion work done in 2009-2010, it can cater 500 more people.
The architecture is of traditional Malay mosque architecture with a minaret (43.3 m.), arches, dome (16.6 m. wide and 24 m. from the floor), and motifs, but modern in form. It has an open concept, where air flow is allowed into the mosque as the door are made from hard wood. Islamic patterned holes are carved in between the motifs.
Its architectural designs are used in the construction for the Maldives National Mosque, as well as other prominent mosques in Kuala Lumpur such as Masjid Saidina Omar al-Khattab and Masjid Saidina Uthman ibn Affan.
Read more about this topic: Saidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq Mosque
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