Arthur Benison Hubback, a British architect and soldier, designed the mosque and used a similar style for the Ubudiah Mosque in Kuala Kangsar. Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah of Selangor laid the foundation stone on March 23, 1908, and the mosque opened on December 23, 1909. It stands at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers.
The article calls the style Indo-Saracenic, loosely reflecting Indian Mughal architecture, and also calls it Moorish or Mughal. Three domes cover the prayer hall, the largest 70 feet (21.3 m) high. There are two main minarets plus smaller ones, with pink and white banding of brick and plaster. The article gives no minaret heights.
Construction cost $32,625, paid partly by the Malay community and partly by the British colonial government. The minaret nearest the river was underpinned in 1984 because it was sloping, and a dome collapsed in heavy rain in 1993 and was repaired.
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