Tabung Haji - Satellite Oddity - Kuala lumpur, Malaysia.
N 03° 09.511 E 101° 43.153
47N E 802237 N 349509
Tabung Haji - Alternative names: Bangunan LUTH, & Lembaga Urusan Tabung Haji Building. This 500 feet tall Pepper Pot is featured on Virtual Globetrotting the Satellite Oddity Website. Located in the Heart of Kuala Lumpur City Center, Malaysia.
Waymark Code: WMVYBW
Location: Malaysia
Date Posted: 06/10/2017
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Bangunan Tabung Haji - Kuala lumpur, Malaysia.
A commercial office building, standing at 500 feet tall, looking down on the KLCC Park.
The Architectural style is 'Modernism' I would call it Pepper Pot design.
The building Overlooks KLCC Park in front of the iconic 'Petronas Towers'
"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." Text Source: (
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Building Name: Bangunan Tabung Haji - Kuala lumpur, Malaysia.
Structure Height: 500 feet
Number of Stories: 38
Year Built: 1984
Architect/Design Firm: Hijjas Kasturi Associates
Address:
201 Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur City Center, Malaysia.