Street to the Masjid Sultan Mosque. (Please view larger)

Designed by Dennis Santry of Swan & Maclaren, a firm responsible for

many of Singapore's other monuments, including Raffles and Goodwood

Park Hotels, the Sultan Mosque at Muscat Street, off Arab Street was

commissioned following the donations by the East India Company in the

treaty ceding Singapore to the British empire in the 19th century.

 

The stately mosque with its signature golden dome remains till today

as the principal mosque of the Muslim community, even though there

are over 70 mosques in various parts of Singapore. It was declared a

national monument in 1975.

As always, this is really great work, Alec. I was there in January and took about 40 pictures of this street (with a lot more people on it) but didn't get anything this good. Wonderful! Also, kudos for including a little information about it. I know this is a photo site, but I like to learn about things I see pictures of it and get really frustrated when I see a beautiful scene and the member doesn't even write where he took it from!

This looks fantastic.

Thanks Bill, Wolfgang, I'm lucky the weather is good with great lighting at 7.30am this morning. Should have taken a panorama but the right side is in the shade and not as interesting. Attached a closer look at the Mosque.

 

Wow!!! Colorful and nice. 7.30am i am still sleeping. lol Where are the coconuts? ;~))

Very exotic! Like the composition and the diversity of the colours.

Nice perspective.

Very rich colours & great composition of the street,mosque & the row of preserved houses.Very beautiful street landscape. Thank you for refreshing my S'pore history too :-)

The early bird gets the photo. Beautiful light and a handsome composition -- the warm, low light on the facade of shops really makes this work. Is it my imagination, or is the mosque dome of shaped a bit like a tasty freeze soft ice cream cone? --jim

Spencer, go back and sleep, palm trees have no coconuts! ^_^

 

Dilber, Maurizio, Cherlyn thanks, next time I'll register to be a tourist guide to make more money then photography heheheh.

 

Jim, the golden dome does look like an ice cream cone, perhaps due to the 14mm wide angle lens. It's actually simlar to the shape of the Taj Mahal. Very grand and stately in a fitting environment.

Wonderful shot! Everything is working in this photo.

Alec, I definitely like the contrast in styles looking at this one vis-a-vis the other two images which follow. A different side of Singapore to be sure.

The colors are so beautiful. Interesting lead in as well. You always come up with the best angles on a scene.

Very nice image Alec, the soft morning light,and the diagonal line of composition going till the dom are very well executed. ( wide angle is great for this). Pnina

Very beautiful, Alec! Well composed and great light

Beautiful composition,Alec.

Alec- Absolutely stunning color, light & composition. Makes me want to see more of the beautiful subject! You have such amazing eyes!

You've got the character of the place spot on......