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I fell in love with the Muslim culture during the first of my travels when I visited Morocco in 2003. What I like especially is impressive mosques, which depending on the region of the world may look completely different. The mosque itself was the only reason why I dreamt of visiting Shah Alam, a city located in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Three decades ago, Shah Alam was just a rubber-and-palm plantation, but in the late 1970s, a massive building programme spawned a well-developed infrastructure, some enormous public buildings and rapidly growing population. Like many planned cities, Shah Alam has very wide streets and great distances between parts of the city, making it difficult to get around without your own transport (LP, Malaysia 2004). Fortunately, most sights are around Lake Gardens, which are easily reachable from KL by bus. The most impressive structure in the city is the Blue Mosque (its real name is: Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah). This huge gleaming mosque is Malaysia's the biggest, accomodating up to 24 thousand worshippers. Its 4 minarets are, according to LP, the tallest in the world, reaching over 140m. Funnily enough, LP claims the same about 210m-high minaret of Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco...
Non-Muslim visitors are allowed into the mosque, and blue robes are provided for them. The mosque is really worth it.
We visited the place on a foggy day. There was a lot of smoke caused by huge fires on Sumatra and in the whole area. That is why the mosque was not clearly visible and the sky was rather greyish. I played a little in PhotoShop to get a better image of this stunning masterpiecie. I hope you like it
Greetings for everyone ;)

PP: cut into a panoramic-like format, sharpened, saturated colours, cleaned in NeatImage