The Sultan Mosque stands at 3 Muscat Street in Kampong Glam and is a national monument, gazetted in 1975. Hussein Shah of Johor ordered the first mosque in 1819, and it was completed in 1826 with local funds and $3,000 from Stamford Raffles. The committee confirmed plans for a larger mosque in 1924, and the Irish architect Denis Santry of Swan & Maclaren designed it. Work proceeded in stages from 1925 to 1931 so daily prayers could continue, and the reconstruction was completed in 1932 for $250,000. The article calls the style classical, influenced by Indo-Saracenic architecture.
Two gold onion domes top the main building, their bases decorated with sawn-off glass bottle ends collected from the poor. Two eight-story minarets face Muscat Street. A private memorial under one dome is restricted to relatives of the Sultan of Johor.
A Japanese airstrike damaged it in World War II, and a restoration ran for about two years from 2014.
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