Must-see attractions in Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

  • Thean Hou Temple

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Sitting atop leafy Robson Heights, this vividly decorated multistorey Chinese temple, dedicated to Thean Hou, the heavenly queen, affords wonderful views…

  • Detail of ceiling in Islamic Arts Museum.

    Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Inhabiting a building that's nearly as impressive as its collection, this museum showcases Islamic decorative arts from around the globe. Scale models of…

  • Lake Gardens – Tun Abdul Razak Heritage Park

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This 70-hectare lush, beautifully landscaped park is most commonly known by its colonial-era moniker: the Lake Gardens (Tasik Perdana in Malay). This is…

  • National Monument

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    On a palm-fringed plaza, with fine views of KL's skyscrapers, stands this bombastic monument. Commemorating military sacrifices in the name of Malaysian…

  • Taman Tugu

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    The first stages of this 27-hectare park have opened in recent years, with the third and final stage originally due for completion some time in 2020. It…

  • Kebun-Kebun Bangsar

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    A community group led by local architect Ng Seksan has created this garden on an 8-acre linear strip of land reserved for the national electricity company…

  • Two Rhinoceros hornbills (Buceors rhinoceros) in tree at KL Bird Park.

    KL Bird Park

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    More than 3000 birds flutter and soar through this 21-hectare aviary. Some 200 species of (mostly) Asian birds can be spotted here, from strutting…

  • Galeri Prima. The art gallery is located next to the New Straits Time newspaper publishing house.

    Galeri Prima

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    In an expansive double-storey building, this hidden gem promotes local art heavyweights and emerging names like Zarina Abdullah and Anassuwandi Ahmad. The…

  • Royal Museum

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    You can tour the first two floors of this grand mansion, originally built as a family home in 1928 by Chinese tin tycoon Chan Wing. From 1957 it served as…

  • National Museum

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This museum offers a good primer on Malaysia's history, from prehistoric to present day. The country's geological features and prehistory are tackled in…

  • Old KL Train Station

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    One of KL's most distinctive colonial buildings, this grand 1910 train station (replaced as a transit hub by KL Sentral in 2001) was designed by British…

  • Perdana Botanical Garden

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Strolling around KL's oldest public park, established in the 1880s, you'll admire native and introduced flora, including 800 species of orchid, mahogany…

  • Free Tree Society

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Set up to educate urbanites about gardens and plants, this NGO has given away over 21,000 trees since 2013. Its work is showcased at a lush compact garden…

  • Orang Asli Craft Museum

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Drop into this interesting museum to view the gallery of wood carvings and masks produced by the Mah Meri, who live along the south coast of Selangor and…

  • Khazanah ILMU Bungalow

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This colonial-era mansion is the headquarters of the trust overseeing Taman Tugu. Inside, by appointment, you can view plans of how KL's newest park will…

  • Sri Kandaswamy Temple

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This temple, fronted by an elaborate modern gopura (gateway), was founded by the Sri Lankan community in 1909 as a place to practise Shaiva Siddhanta, a…

  • National Mosque

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    The elegant design of this gigantic 1960s mosque was inspired by Mecca’s Masjid al-Haram. Able to accommodate 15,000 worshippers, it has an umbrella-like…

  • Royal Malaysian Police Museum

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    One of KL's best small museums offers a fascinating history of Malaysia through the story of policing. Discover not just the uniforms that distinguished…

  • Sam Kow Tong Temple

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Established in 1916 by the Heng Hua clan, the 'three teachings' temple has a beautiful Hokkien-style temple roof, with graceful curving ridgelines that…

  • Vivekananda Ashram

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This historic and pleasingly designed ashram, built in 1904 and part of the global Ramakrishna movement, is a well-loved subject for photographers. It…

  • Sekeping Tenggiri

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    For art lovers it's worth making an appointment to view architect Ng Seksan's superb collection of Malaysian contemporary art, so large that he's turned…

  • PAM Centre

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Opened in 2017, the new home of Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) – the Architects' Association of Malaysia – is a distinctive contemporary building that…

  • National Planetarium

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Part of the National Space Agency, the planetarium offers shows in the Space Theatre throughout the day. It has an observation deck (for looking at KL)…

  • Buddhist Maha Vihara

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Founded in 1894 by Sinhalese settlers, this is one of KL's major Theravada Buddhist temples. It's a particular hive of activity around Wesak Day, the…

  • KL Butterfly Park

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This is a great place to get up close with a hundred or so of the 1100-plus butterfly species found in Malaysia, including the enormous and well-named…

  • APW

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    As the printing business evolved in the early 21st century, the owners of Art Printing Works have creatively converted defunct parts of their plant into…

  • Sri Sakthi Vinayagar Temple

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    The original shrine for Lord Vinayagar (the remover of obstacles) in Brickfields was a shack on Jln Sultan Abdul Samad. Such was the humble start of many…

  • Hibiscus Garden

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This lovely garden is dedicated to Malaysia’s national flower and surrounds a small colonial-era house (closed to the public).

  • Memorial Tun Abdul Razak

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    The house where Tun Abdul Razak lived while serving as Malaysia's second prime minister has been turned into a memorial museum displaying his personal…

  • Sree Veera Hanuman Temple

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Honouring Hanuman, this temple has been under reconstruction for years, and should be a striking sight when its gopura (gateway) is revealed: the tower…

  • Little India Fountain

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This eye-catching fountain is the focal point of KL's official 'Little India'. Symbolic elements in the fountain's design include elephants, swans,…

  • Deer Park

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This cluster of small open-air enclosures is home to a collection of tame deer including the tiny Tragulus kanchil (lesser mouse deer), the world’s…

  • Kwong Tong Cemetery

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    This sprawling Chinese cemetery is notable not just for its immense size (333 hectares of rolling grassy hills and fragrant frangipani trees) but also for…

  • Museum of Malay World Ethnology

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Contains displays on Malay musical instruments, games, textiles and metalwork, including an impressive gallery of beautifully engraved weapons.

  • Church of the Holy Rosary

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Cut off from the bulk of Brickfields by the highway Jln Damansara, this Catholic church built in 1903 is worth a look for its French Gothic Revival style…

  • Orchid Garden

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    There are many different species of orchid on display here and the gardens are a pleasant place to walk around and admire them; unfortunately there is…

  • SMK La Salle Brickfields Murals

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Decorating panels of this school's exterior wall are colourful murals covering the history of Brickfields and including details on the now demolished 100…

  • Jalan Tun Sambanthan Garland Sellers

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Follow the scent of jasmine to find this alley of garland stalls, where stall holders skilfully weave brightly coloured flowers into garlands used in…

  • Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church

    Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar

    Lutherans from Tamil Nadu first held a service in this area in 1907. Seventeen years later the congregation helped build this modest, attractive church.

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