Al-Makmur Mosque

Last updated September 29, 2019

Masjid Jami' Al-Makmur Cikini is located on Jalan Raden Saleh Raya in Cikini, Central Jakarta, and is one of the oldest mosques in the locality. It was formerly known as Tjikini Mosque (Indonesian: 'Masjid Tjikini').^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cikini is an administrative village in the Menteng district of Indonesia. It has a postal code of 10330.

Central Jakarta is one of the five administrative cities which form the Special Capital Region of Jakarta. It had 898,883 inhabitants according to the 2010 Census. Central Jakarta is not self-governed and does not have a city council, hence it is not classified as a proper municipality.

Early history

The mosque stands on what was the estate of Raden Saleh, the famous late nineteenth-century Romantic painter. Oral tradition has it that Raden Saleh himself allowed local Muslims to build a prayer house on his estate, sometime in 1850. In 1897, the late artist's wife sold the estate to the Alatas family, a prominent Peranakan Arab clan of colonial landlords and officials.

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Legal Limbo

Some thirty years later, Sayyid Ismail bin Sayyid Abdoellah bin Alwi Alatas sold part of the estate to Koningin Emma Stichting, a foundation that would later build and manage Cikini Hospital (Indonesian: 'Rumah Sakit Cikini'). The old mosque was excluded from the transaction due to an ongoing ownership dispute between the Sayyid and the mosque. Around this time, the simple old structure was moved to the banks of the Ciliwung to enable worshippers to undertake wudu in the river.

Sayyid is an honorific title denoting people accepted as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his cousin and son-in-law Imam Ali through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Imam Husayn ibn Ali, sons of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and Ali.

Ci Liwung is a 119 km long river in the northwestern region of Java where it flows through two provinces, West Java and the special region of Jakarta. The natural estuary of the Ciliwung river, known as the Kali Besar, was an important strategic point for trade in the precolonial and colonial periods and was instrumental in the founding of the port city of Jakarta, but has been lost from reorganization of the watercourse of the rivers around the area into canals.

Wudu Islamic procedure for washing parts of the body using water before formal prayers

Wuḍūʾ is the Islamic procedure for cleansing parts of the body, a type of ritual purification, or ablution. Wudu involves washing the hands, mouth, nostrils, arms, head and feet with water and is an important part of ritual purity in Islam. What activities require wuḍūʾ, what rituals constitute it and what breaks or invalidates it are governed by fiqh and specifically its rules concerning hygiene.

After Sayyid Ismail's victory in the courts, the land on which the mosque stood was sold to Koningin Emma Stichting in 1923. A year later, the hospital board officially requested the mosque board to move the house of worship further away from its present site.

Staying power

The mosque authorities, however, refused since they consider the land a legacy, or waqf, left to the community by Raden Saleh.

A waqf, also known as hubous (حُبوس) or mortmain property, is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law, which typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitable purposes with no intention of reclaiming the assets. The donated assets may be held by a charitable trust. The person making such dedication is known as waqif, a donor. In Ottoman Turkish law, and later under the British Mandate of Palestine, the waqf was defined as usufruct State land of which the State revenues are assured to pious foundations. Although based on several hadiths and presenting elements similar to practices from pre-Islamic cultures, it seems that the specific full-fledged Islamic legal form of endowment called waqf dates from the 9th century AD.

To ensure the mosque's survival in situ, a committee was formed to transform the old simple prayer house into a permanent, concrete structure. Among the committee members were Agus Salim, Mas Mansur and Cokroaminoto. Between 1932 and 1934, the mosque underwent further renovation and expansion work, financed by Sarekat Islam. These efforts helped stave off efforts to have the mosque moved away, though the building remained in a legal limbo for many decades to come. It was only in 1991 that Cikini Hospital bequeathed - for good - to the mosque the land which it has occupied since 1850.

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References

↑ Heuken, S.J., Adolf (2003). Mesjid-mesjid tua di Jakarta. Jakarta: Yayasan Cipta Loka Caraka. pp. 93–95. ISBN 9799722926.
↑ Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia. "Masjil Al-Makmur (Masjid Cikini) – Jakarta Pusat". Kebudayaan Indonesia. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
↑ Dinas Komunikasi, Informatika dan Kehumasan Pemprov DKI Jakarta. "Al Makmur Raden Saleh, Masjid". Portal Resmi Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Archived from the original on August 2, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2015.

Bibliography

Heuken, S.J. Adolf (2003). Mesjid-mesjid tua di Jakarta. Yayasan Cipta Loka Caraka. ISBN 9799722926.

Coordinates: 6°11′28″S106°50′34″E / 6.1912°S 106.8428°E / -6.1912; 106.8428

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[1] Heuken, S.J., Adolf (2003). Mesjid-mesjid tua di Jakarta. Jakarta: Yayasan Cipta Loka Caraka. pp. 93–95. ISBN 9799722926.

[2] Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia. "Masjil Al-Makmur (Masjid Cikini) – Jakarta Pusat". Kebudayaan Indonesia. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2015.

[3] Dinas Komunikasi, Informatika dan Kehumasan Pemprov DKI Jakarta. "Al Makmur Raden Saleh, Masjid". Portal Resmi Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Archived from the original on August 2, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2015.