Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III, the 28th Sultan of Brunei, provided the initial concepts, and the draughtsman Haji Besar bin Sagap put them on paper. The Italian artist and architect Rudolfo Nolli and the Malaysian firm Booty Edwards & Partners designed it. Groundbreaking was on February 4, 1954, and the Sultan opened it on September 26, 1958.
The infobox calls the style Eclectic-Mughal, and the text says Mughal architecture significantly influenced it. The building measures 225 by 86 feet (69 by 26 m) and holds 3,000 worshippers. The golden dome is 171 feet (52 m) high, and the main minaret is 166 feet (51 m), the tallest in the country, with four lesser minarets.
A lagoon, inaugurated in 1967, holds a concrete re-creation of a 16th-century royal barge; the infobox calls it stone. The article gives no visiting hours.
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