Malaysia: Shah Alam and the Blue Mosque

With minarets stretching up 142.3m high (the tallest in the world) the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Mosque (or as it is more commonly referred to, "The Blue Mosque") is Malaysia's largest mosque and fourth largest mosque in the world.

Up until now, everytime Hiro has brought a guest to see the mosque, for some reason or another, he and the guest(s) were never allowed to enter. Today, we got lucky and were allowed to head upstairs to the main prayer hall...on the condition that we did not enter the hall itself or take pictures. Thus, unfortunately, all of my pictures are from outside of the mosque.

I say unfortunately because as breathtaking as the mosque was from the outside, peering into vastness of the dome enclosed prayer hall, bathed in cool blue light from the stained glass windows, was something altogether different, dark, immense, mysterious, sacred.