This facility houses nine religious organizations that fall under the Religious Affairs portfolio of the Prime Minister's Department. It is inspired by modern Islamic architecture. The Putrajaya Islamic Complex is comprised of four blocks, namely Blocks A, B, C, and D. Properties constructed the Putrajaya Islamic Complex on a 2.21-hectare land. The building was completed in July 2016 and operations began on 1 December 2016. The first phase of the Putrajaya Islamic Complex was completed in October 2011 in Precinct 3, Putrajaya. Putrajaya puts religious issue, identical nations as well as globalization into a city scale (Moser 2010). It was needed in the colonial era representing the trend of borderer's development in Southeast Asia.

Putrajaya city in Malaysia was created to be an administrative center of the country where diversity of powers from different ethnicities came together. Thus, each script took on a variety of forms and materials depending on its location (Fragment 2018). The calligraphy style is determined by the text's content, the shape of the surfaces, and the purpose for which it is intended. Calligraphy is used to decorate religious and secular structures in a variety of mediums, including pottery, glass, carpets, gems, woodcarving, and metalwork (George 2017). It was associated with a variety of fields within the Arab culture, including religion, sculpture, architecture, education, and handicraft, all of which had a significant role in its growth. That (Arabic: خط ), which is derived from the terms 'line', 'plan', or 'building'. Islamic architecture evolved a vocabularly rich vocabulary that was frequently applied to all of these minor structures, such as public baths, fountains, and home architecture (Saoud 2002).Īrabic calligraphy is an artistic form of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet. Islamic architecture styles include the mosque, the tomb, the castle, the fort, the school, and urban structures. The word Islamic architecture or Muslim architecture has a variety of definitions, but in general, the term refers to the architectural traits that Muslims use to identify themselves. Islamic architecture encompasses a diverse range of secular and religious forms, having influenced the design and development of buildings and structures in Islamic civilization and beyond since Islam's inception.

Further research is essential to create a guideline to help the designers and architects by providing the Islamic city's best image. It is essential to apply calligraphy to represent the complete form of Islamic heritage. Each type of component carries a special meaning and symbolization of Islamic culture. The analyses determine several types of elements and components with the tangible and intangible qualities that articulate their compositional order. These buildings are the Moroccan pavilion, Putra Mosque, The Ministry of Finance, Masjid Tuanku, Mizan Zainal Abidin, and Complex Islam Putrajaya. In each building, the researcher recognizes the applied Islamic element that can found in it. The researcher had picked a few examples of public buildings for the study. The researcher chose Putrajaya city to be the selected research area, focusing on the public and administrative buildings. Most of the required data were collected by doing photographic documentation and on-site studies besides semi-structured interviews with the government. This paper is analyses a few important buildings in the city of Putrajaya. Then, to analyze the Islamic decorative elements and highlight the importance of calligraphy in determining the building's character and identity as one of the main elements that should be applied to Putrajaya's administrative public buildings. Therefore, this study aims to identify the Islamic components in Putrajaya's administrative public buildings. However, the element of calligraphy is missing in the overall features of the Islamic city patterns.

The Islamic art components are highly applied to the buildings' motif and ornamentations. Putrajaya is created to present the Islamic city in Malaysia. It is supposed to have three art components by giving an Islamic identity: geometric, floral, and Islamic calligraphy.

Arabic pictorial calligraphy