Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Temple

Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Temple is both an active Hindu shrine and a major Johor tourism landmark. Tourism Malaysia describes it as one of Johor’s oldest Hindu temples and records its national recognition for glass religious architecture. Tourism Malaysia records that the Johor Bahru temple was established in 1922 and later became famous for an interior covered with roughly 300,000 pieces of coloured glass.

In 2010 it entered the Malaysia Book of Records as the country’s first glass temple. The glass treatment is a modern artistic transformation of an older Hindu shrine; its religious identity remains centred on Kaliamman worship. The site remains a Hindu place of worship dedicated to Kaliamman; the glass architecture is a later artistic feature rather than a miracle claim.

The interior is covered with hundreds of thousands of coloured glass pieces, creating a distinctive reflective sacred space. Because the temple remains a working Hindu sanctuary, festival days can alter normal access and produce very large pilgrim crowds. Visitors should defer to worshippers, follow local instructions on modest dress and footwear, and avoid treating vow-making or other devotional acts as a spectacle.