page_title: Jamek Mosque
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Jamek Mosque / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Masjid Jamek in 1935
context_page_description: Jamek Mosque, officially Sultan Abdul Samad Jamek Mosque, is one of the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is located at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak River and may be accessed via Jalan Tun Perak. The mosque was designed by Arthur Benison Hubback, and built in 1909.
  The name "Jamek" is the Malay equivalent of the Arabic word meaning a place where people congregate to worship. It is also referred to as "Friday Mosque" by the locals.
context_section_description: The mosque was built on the location of an old Malay burial place at the confluence of Klang and Gombak River and named Jamek Mosque. A couple of mosques previously existed in the Java Street and Malay Street area serving the Malay communities, but Jamek Mosque would be the first large mosque to be built in Kuala Lumpur. The foundation stone of the mosque was laid by the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah on 23 March 1908, and the Sultan officially opened the mosque on 23 December 1909. The construction of the mosque cost $32,625, funded in part by the Malay community with contribution from the British colonial government. The architect was Arthur Benison Hubback who designed the mosque in the Indian Muslim Mughal architectural style. Masjid Jamek served as Kuala Lumpur's main mosque until the national mosque, Masjid Negara, was built in 1965.
  The mosque has since been enlarged with extensions built, and the originally open-air forecourt roofed over.  One of the domes of the mosque collapsed in 1993 due to heavy rain, but has since been repaired.
  On 23 June 2017, the mosque was renamed to Sultan Abdul Samad Jamek Mosque by Selangor's Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah after his ancestor — the fourth Sultan of Selangor Sultan Abdul Samad — as the mosque was originally built on land that was part of the state of Selangor.
caption: Masjid Jamek in 1935
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