A photographing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being concave at a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex at a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element with negative refractive power made of plastic material, and has an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region thereof and being convex at a peripheral region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the third lens element are aspheric.