Putrajaya: Malaysia's city in a garden
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www.putraja.net.my Putrajaya is a thoroughly modern and vibrant city. It is a model township
that has been constructed with detailed planning, innovative urban design and great respect for the environment. Putrajaya is a city with a vision and heritage for the country’s present and future generations. Its beautifully landscaped roads and parks as well as modern buildings are clearly reflected in the duality of the project theme “Garden City, Intelligent City”.
The vision to have a new Federal Government Administrative Centre to replace Kuala Lumpur surfaced in late 1980s. A 4,932-hectare lush forest area in southern Prang Besar in Selangor was identified and later renamed “Putrajaya” in honour of Malaysia’s first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj for his invaluable contribution to the nation. The relocation is to ensure that Kuala Lumpur will have adequate supply of land to continue developing as Malaysia's principal business and financial centre.
Of the city’s total land area, a third is being developed into parks, lakes and wetlands while the remaining areas is for Government offices, commercial and residential areas, public utilities and amenities. The Master Plan and Urban Design vision of Putrajaya comprises two main components namely the Core and Peripheral Areas.
One of the major tourist attractions is the pink-domed Putra Mosque is located at the western shore of the Putrajaya Lake. Its dome constructed in rose-tinted granite.
The basement wall of the mosque resembles that of the King Hassan mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. The mosque consists of three main functional areas - the prayer hall, the "Sahn" or courtyard, learning facilities and function rooms.
The prayer hall is simple and elegant, supported by 12 columns. The highest point below the dome is 2,500 feet above ground level. The Sahn, landscaped with several decorative water features and bordered by colonnades, provide extended prayer space. Its impressive minaret is influenced by the design of the Sheikh Omar mosque in Baghdad. At 116m, it is the tallest minaret in the region and is built in five tiers, representing Rukun Islam or the Five Tenets of Islam.
The mosque, which can accommodate 15,000 worshippers at any one time, also accommodates a VIP room, library, Manuscript Museum, auditorium, exhibition foyer and a seminar room.
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World Islamic Tourism Mart / Malaysia
WITM 2012 InCoMTHU Conference will feature quality and world renown speakers not only from Malaysia but from around the globe. In its 6th Year, the WITM InCoMTHU Conference 2012 will have speakers fro (16/05/2012)
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