Menara Tabung Haji (Kuala Lumpur)

Malaysia / Kuala Lumpur / Kuala Lumpur / Jalan Tun Razak, 201
 office building, hajj
Address:
Bangunan Lembaga Urusan Tabung Haji (BLUTH)
No. 201, Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Phone: (+603) 2054 2000
Fax: (+603) 2163 2308
Website: www.tabunghaji.gov.my/

This high-rise office tower (151.83 metres) is the headquarters of Lembaga Tabung Haji. It is the Malaysian hajj pilgrims fund board which facilitates savings for the pilgrimage to Makkah through investment in Shariah-compliant vehicles. The fund board was established in 1962 as a modest proposal to aid the Malayan rural economy and to enable the Muslims to perform 'Hajj', one of the tenets of their faith, today LUTH is one of the greatest cooperative success stories in Malaysia. Its basic principles, structured by Royal Professor Ungku Aziz who was then an economics lecturer and who later became the Vice Chancellor of the University Malaya, remain unchanged, but the institution has developed beyond imagination.

The Tabung Haji Tower was completed in 1984. It was designed by the legendary Malaysian architect Hijjas Kasturi www.hijjaskasturi.com/ The building back then was not only the tallest building in Malaysia but was also hailed as the highest Muslim edifice of the world. The building has a circular ground plan which flares at both its base and top, and is supported on five massive columns which line the entire height of the structure. Each column, in its hollow, includes a peripheral air conditioning system serving one fifth of each floor area. The building's forecourt is punctuated by the mosque's tapering dome surmounted by a round blue-colored finial and by a free-standing minaret ending in a blue-colored pointed finial.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabung_Haji
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Coordinates:   3°9'29"N   101°43'11"E

Comments

  • On friday, muslim can choose to perform friday prayer here as optional to Masjid As-Syakirin.
  • exactly very conveniently located
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