Darussalam Great Mosque (Samarinda)

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Darussalam Great Mosque
Masjid Raya Darussalam
Basic information
Location Flag of Indonesia.svg Samarinda, Indonesia
Affiliation Islam
Province East Kalimantan
Architectural description
Architectural type Mosque
Architectural style Ottoman
Completed 1925
Specifications
Length 25 m
Width 25 m
Dome(s) 1
Minaret(s) 4

Darrusalam Great Mosque is the second largest mosque in the province of East Kalimantan after the Samarinda Islamic Center Mosque, and it is located in Pasar Pagi, Samarinda Ilir, Samarinda, which is the center of Samarinda city. The main characteristics of the mosque is that it has a large green dome and several small domes adjacent to the dome and has four minarets. The mosque is facing Mahakam River.

Mosque Place of worship for followers of Islam

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East Kalimantan Province in Indonesia

East Kalimantan is a province of Indonesia. Its territory comprises the eastern portion of Borneo. It has a population of about 3.5 million, and its capital is Samarinda.

Samarinda Islamic Center Mosque

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History

Construction of the mosque begun in 1925, initiated by merchants of Bugis people and Banjar people. Since the construction, the building has not changed much.

Banjar people

The Banjar or Banjarese are a native ethnic group in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Several centuries ago, some of them had travelled to many places in the Malay archipelago.

Previously the mosque was named Jamik Mosque, which later underwent renovations in 1953 and 1967. The mosque was originally built on a land of 25 × 25 meters on the outskirts of Mahakam River. With increasingly rapid development of Samarinda however, the mosque was replaced by a building at Yos Sudarso street with an area of around 15 thousand square meters. [1]

Mahakam River river in Indonesia

The Mahakam River is a river in Kalimantan, Indonesia. It flows 980 km from the district of Long Apari in the highlands of Borneo, to its mouth at the Makassar Strait.

Architecture

The building of the mosque resembles the mosques of Ottoman Empire. The characteristics are seen in the shape of domes, minarets, and a number of arches over doors and windows. [2]

Ottoman Empire Former empire in Asia, Europe and Africa

The Ottoman Empire, also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror.

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References

  1. ↑ Jangan Ubah Masjid Raya. Kaltim Post. Retrieved July 29, 2012
  2. ↑ Sejarah Masjid Raya Darussalam Samarinda, Retrieved March 5, 2010 Archived January 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine .


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