| Summary: | Place is a Physical location formed by people’s relationship with physical
environments, activities, and meanings. In this essence, Place Attachment is
a concept that could describe the quality of the people’s relationship with a
place. Although religion has a significant impact on the public place
attachment within religious places, the architectural features and attributes
of such physical settings could still play an influential role in leveraging this
attachment. However, the role of architectural characteristics and features
of Islamic religious places, as the components that make them meaningful,
has not been adequately explored within the context of Malaysia. This paper
reports the results of a conducted study for investigating Malaysian users’
attachment to five Malaysian mosques from three different architectural
styles. The paper explains how Malaysian users attach to the mosques and
which attributes of these places affect their attachment. In-depth interviews
with 23 worshipers in the mosques and questionnaire survey with 288
people were conducted to address this objective. The study identified the
drivers of Malaysian users’ attachment to the selected mosques. This study
is a new approach to investigation of physical and ambient quality of
mosques based on empirical data, hence providing theoretical basis for
further investigations and improvements
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