Similar Giant Umbrella Masjid Nabawi



Great Mosque, Central Java is truly magnificent. This mosque stands on 10 hectares of land, 27,900 m2 building knowledgeable, able to accommodate up to 15,000 fold.

The mosque was built for 5 years. Cost almost Rp 200 billion. Inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in November 2006.

Design, the work of architect Ir. Ahmad Fanani from Atelier Enam, is the result of the competition that combines architecture, and Roman and Arabic.

Look at the middle of the mosque, there stood the white dome ribbed middle of 20m. Neck titivate calligraphy Surah An-Nur verse 35. Then there are four Minaret Andalusia style as 62m. Stand like sturdy guard dome. Basic Minaret this titivate multiformity batik motif. There tumpal motif, for walang, kayung and chopper-parangan. Minaret and dome as drift combined lighting of the game.

The mosque titivate six giant umbrella have a diameter 48m. Umbrella-umbrella-opened closed automatically. Cost of making an umbrella reached Rp 10 billion. In the world, there are two new buildings that have an umbrella like this. One in the mosque, the other in the Masjid Nabawi, Madinah.

At the gate stands the mosque also Alqanathir. Curved shape resembling koloseum, building the rest of the Roman triumph. Flection on the gate is beautiful calligraphy of the verses of the Qur'an.

Not only as a place to run a religious ritual Muslims, the mosque complex is also a tourism object. There have Alhusna Tower at 99m, the floor 19. Tower, among other functions, as a radio studio Islam, Islamic culture and the museum cafe with Muslims floor can rotate. Tower also has a viewing tower that has five Hilal binoculars to monitor and see the city from a height of lumpia Semarang.