Sultan Abdul Samad Building

The pathway from River of Life towards Sultan Abdul Samad building from the back entrance.

Malaysia's most treasured heritage building

Completed in 1897 by A. C. Norman, with a Classical Renaissance style of early 15th Century Europe. Later, it was reworked into a more quintessential Indo-Saracenic, Neo Mughal inspired designs by Bidwell and Hubback. 

This building was commissioned by the British administration to centralized administrative offices back in the 1900s.

Later, it housed the supreme and high courts. 

Today, the Sultan Abdul Samad building is home to the Malaysian Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture.

135 feet clock tower 

This clock has marked independence at the stroke of midnight on 31 August 1957.

Merdeka Square. The Sultan Abdul Samad building is located on its right side.