Sultan Idris Shah II was inaugurated on 15 September 1978 by ldris Sultan Iskandar Shah II (1963-1984), Sultan of the 33rd, in conjunction with the anniversary celebrations of the birthday of his 33rd. It is located on a piece of land measuring about 2.6 acres in the middle of the city of Ipoh. Construction work on the mosque was started on May 16, 1966, and the foundation stone was laid on October 27, 1967 by (the late) Tun Haji Abdul Razak, the then Deputy Prime Minister. The mosque was completed on August 26, 1968.
