Today, I visited Putrajaya. As it was almost time for Asar, the evening prayer, I decided to drive to the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque, or Iron Mosque. See it thru my eyes ya…
top picture: the mosque. I was running late, it’s so huge, I was everywhere… upstairs, downstairs… I needed to do ablution (wudhu) and had to rush up to adorn the prayer cloak (telekung). So, no time for pictures!
from the prayer hall; bottom left: the front (Asmaul Husna Calligraphy) on a glass panel; bottom right: no doors!! open concept. That’s why it says the mosque was designed based on three concepts; wind, simplicity and transparency. Not like you can walk out that way, they have man made pool all around it and if you decide to cross it anyway, you’re on a higher floor with the lake waiting at the bottom… wanna swim? or drown yourself… you’ll probably be in the news the following day…
yeah, I was using the DSLR. Not enough lighting, need to invest in an external flash… anyway, I just need to ‘get to know’ the camera first.
top left: view from the left; top right: view from the right of the main prayer hall. Lovely eh?
In any mosque… it’s the architecture of the dome that becomes one of the main attraction.. they didn’t call it the Iron Mosque for nothing.
Walking out from the left side of the building… (it has more to attract me), I snapped these four. The garden before entering the main prayer hall, the view overlooking part of Putrajaya from a patio at the corner of the mosque.
As I walk out the gate I realize it was a walkway made to link the offices to the mosque. Below it is the road that links from other Presints… and when I turn 180 degrees round, I see the garden and landscape that was adapted from the ancient castles of Alhambra.
top left: the view from the other side of that walkway. Again my lighting.. and top right: the Palace of Justice that you see through that arch.
I will put up more in my next posts. Other spots that I went to. I didn’t cover much, it’s just that I have read about this new mosque and I wanted to see it myself.
