Need grand c to translate these words....

Groote Moskee van Demak?

yeap, grand mosque of demak was built without nails

Dian Al-Mahri Mosque in Depok - West Java, with its domes covered with 18-carat gold.

Grand Mosque of Central Java in Semarang, with its large courtyard and 100-metre minaret


In the great courtyard, giant electronic umbrellas are installed to protect outdoor worshippers from the rain, in the fashion of Masjidil Haram in Mecca



Inside the mosque, a giant Qur'an holder and a wooden drum are displayed

I like the grand mosque of central java. Its very nice.

Mesjid Jami Tan Hok Liang, mosque built in Chinese style by famous preacher Anton Medan aka KH Ramadhan Effendi aka Tan Hok Liang for Muslim Chinese-Indonesians in Cibinong - West Java.

Allahuakbar! Beautiful mosques!!

Nice and modern...

^^

mosque!!

Shalat Ied at Masjid Agung Palembang


Colorful fountain in front of Masjid Agung palembang



Masjid Al-Anwar
Jl. Tubagus Angke Gang Masjid No.1 Jakarta Barat.

Built in 1762 in Muslim-Balinese village in Batavia. The Balinese architecture can be found in roof ornament. The old mosque is also influenced by Arabian, Javanese, Chinese, and Dutch architecture.

Al-Azhom Grand Mosque in Tangerang - Banten, featuring the unique five overlapping domes covered by blue ceramic tiles.

wicked roof design!

Indeed....
The combined domes and towers on each corners are Turkish style.
It's a modern interpretation of Turkish style mosque.

Blue Mosque, Istanbul:

Wow, so many styles of Mosques. They all look very different from eachother.
Big too.

In Turkey most look the same and even some of them are in a block of residential houses.

Masjid Laweyan - Solo





much more on:

http://www.londoh.info/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1166348704

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wow, Masjid Laweyan is among my favorite of them all- classical, serene and very down to earth. The Al-Azhom in Tangerang however, I found grotesque and tries too hard/very nouveau-riche.

The masjid in Mozambique I saw was so threadbare and simple, they didn't even have a loudspeaker to call the faithful to prayers, the muezzin had to call his prayers just with bare voice.

That's the anti-nouveau riche of Islam.

Beautiful! Still under construction?

Semarang is such a calm and quite city...I hope the Grand Mosque will reflect the people's personality.

The automatic giant umbrellas are now finished.

My Almamater Masjid.....!

Masjid Universitas Indonesia...

this picture is absolutely stunning. these masjids look beautiful.





i think this is what my comcept of a classic masjid would look like. its breathtaking.



MASHALLAH!

Subhanallah! All mosques are beautiful!!

Thanks for the pix!

@Londoh :
Pak Londoh, how r u? Still menjelajah ? where is now?
Long time no see

More pics, pls!

yang ada di sini semuanya bagus..tapi sebenernya yang jelek dan hampir ancur juga banyak!
asytagfirullah

Grand Mosque of Tasikmalaya - West Java

soooooooooooo beautiful thank you

I'm feeling sad b/c I haven't been able to go to masjid regularly for the past month

Naughty, naughty....

Ya Allah..

the mosques are so beautiful! makes me wanna visit them..

Pangandaran, Jabar, Februari 2008

At Tin mosque, TMII, East Jakarta

Golden domed, Masjid Dian Al-Mahri, Maruyung, Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia




Masjid Agung Cilimus, Kuningan, West Java, with Ciremai Volcano on the backround

Masjid Raya Baiturrahman, Banda Aceh, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia
IMO one of the most beautiful mosque in Indonesia



Old picture of Masjid Raya Baiturrahman before the expansion

Yep, I think this one is very classic and beautiful indeed! Proud to be orang Indonesia.


Masjid Agung Al-Ukhuwwah in Bandung, West Java

Masjid Dian Al-Mahri in Depok, West Java

Beautiful gold domed Mosque

^Really hard to imagine that if from Indonesia.... when I first saw it...I thought it was from some rich Arab country.
it's beautiful.

Yep, and I guess this is the only gold domed mosque in Indonesia. Or is there anything else? Anyone knows?

^^ you know why we could build such luxurious mosque ? It is because they use the money of taxpayers to build that. And sometimes the time of the construction of such building is not right. For example, in my city they "INSIST" to build a "mesjid raya". And of course the idea came from those idle local or grassroot parliament members. The mosque was built at bloody outskirt of the city which is very far far away from the town. When i pay a visit to that place, along the road i saw many mosques already. And the population around there is agonizingly small to fill that mosque, leave alone the already numerous existing mosques. It is totaly non sensical idea. And before the project is tendered, PT. Chevron Pacific Indonesia (CPI) has willingly donated a piece of land near the town to build that mosque. In other words, the construction cost can't be trimmed. Unfortunately, the donation has been turned down so that they could build the mosque in the middle of the jungle. What a bloody lame joke. On the other hand, the road to the Kawasan Industry is agonizingly at bad condition. The road is not even asphalted. It is normally the intitiative of the factories owner to build the damn bloody infrastructure. At the end of year 2007, the city mayor and DPRD even get reprimanded because of excess in the budget. They dont even spin the money in the province owned bank. The mayor was minimumly come out with projects to repair and build the necessary infrastructure. They always shout for "putera daerah" to be the leader. But see what they gave to us ? If there is a project, the technical department will let the students to design and come out with the blueprint. And the technical department will not check the work by these students and just hand the blueprint to the winning contractors. And that's it, they will just ask them to do it exactly like the one drawn on the blueprints. they must follow all the measurements and size like stated on the blueprints. Later, when the work has progressed, in the middle of it, the technical departments will come and protest to the the contractors. They will only say ," salah ini". So, the they have to re do it again. macam mana nga gondok ? If there is project to build the city sewage system, all say can't do it. But if there is project to build big buildings or skyscrapers, they will say i can do it. tsk tsk tsk. cape dhe..... I just have to say this is the behaviour of melayu. I am sorry my state is the state where the native is melayu. No offence here. But it's like that.

ok,

id rather see one BIG CLEAN MOSQUE in the STRATEGIC place (cmon, like in SAUDI, Malaysia)


rather than MANY dirty small mosque in one region/area. (indonesia)

but the problem, is incompetent SKB, (surat keputusan bersama)
as long as majority is there and agreed, they have free do their own,
let say for example :
building stuff that you are not supposed to build.

wedding party in the middle of street.
dang dut party.
way below standard of traffic and neighborhood comfortability .

^^ LOL.

Masjid Raya Sultan Riau, Pulau Penyengat, Kepulauan Riau





Masjid Sultan Suriansyah, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan




The tower of Masjid Kudus, Central Java featuring Hindu Temple style.
Probably it was a Javanese Hindu temple from Majapahit era converted to a mosque.
The central temple tower roof structure was removed and modified into a mosque minaret.

Notice the Majapahit red-brick architecture style, and its similarity with other Majapahit structure



Bajang Ratu Gate




The gate and green dome of Masjid Al Akbar, Surabaya, East Java

In some part of Indonesia there r just enough masjid for now and what we need urgently are more
schools, hospitals, rumah yatim/jompo, ruko sederhana/modal bisnis untuk bisa menopang ekonomi umat miskin etc.

While the reverse has been happening in the US (especially in the metropolitan cities) - and this might serve as an indication for future reference and lesson to learn - are the conversion of beautiful and majestic old churches albeit empty for luxury apartments, congregation from other denominations (including masjid) or even sacrilegious nightclubs!
and the reasons r varies like idk.. downsizing, declining attendance or whatever himpitan ekonomi/market trend dictates.

Masjid Raya Baiturrahman

In spirit of Ramadhan....

Old mosque of Indonesia

Masjid Agung Manonjaya
Tasikmalaya, Jawa Barat







The roof style is called "Bale Nyungcung" (pointy pavilion/building), a Sundanese-Javanese style of mosque roof with tall pointy top.
Masjid Raya Bandung originally feature this style too and also called "Bale Nyungcung", however the renovation has altered and expanded the mosque of Bandung to be domed mosque with two tall tower.




Masjid Agung Bandung

IMO they should retained the "Bale Nyungcung" roof style...

Not so long ago I made a few pics of very simple mosques in Leihitu - Ambon Island

Here's the link

the mosques around the world --> Click Me

Masjid Baiturrahman in Banda Aceh, one of the most graceful mosques in Indonesia