LOCAL MOSQUE DESIGN

STANDARDS
WHAT IS A MOSQUE?
• The mosque is the allocated place for the Muslims worshipping.
whereas, the five imposed prayers held in congregationally. It’s directed
toward "Al Qeblah“ which is Alkaabh in Makkah.
TYPE OF MOSQUES
Mosque types vary depending on location, use, and size.
The three main mosque types are:
• Local Mosque
• Friday Mosque (Gouma’h/Jum’ah mosque)
• Eid Mosque

And this presentation will discuss local mosque standards.

LOCAL MOSQUE
A local mosque is a mosque where the daily five prayers are held, it
is relatively smaller because it usually serves the local
community/neighborhood around it, with a minimum capacity of
200 persons, and the walking distance from the residing locations to
mosque shall not be more than 150 to 200 m.
It consists of:
• Praying hall
• Minaret
• Mihrab
• Service areas
THE PRAYING HALL
it is the main part in the mosque. It usually consists of a building with a big hall to
accommodate the prayers who intend to perform the five imposed prayers, and takes
place usually in the Mosque front part and toward Qeblah direction which is the place
where the prayer held in.
It consists of:
• prayer hall for men.
• Prayer hall for women with a special entrance. and it must be away from the entrances
of the men Prayer hall. with its separate services. given that it shall be adjacent to the
men hall without any connection between men and women and shall not be in front of
the men hall.
Each worshipper should have a space of 1.42 m².
THE MINARET
• it's a building adjacent to
the Mosque , usually it is
higher than the praying
part, and it has balconies
and windows where the
Orator takes place, In order
to let all the people hear the
Caller for prayer when
calling for prayer in its time.
the purpose from it is to lead
to or define the mosque
than the other buildings.
MIHRAB
• it is a cavity in the centre of the mosque frontage in Qeblah
direction to accommodate the Imam and its height
commensurate with the dome above the Mihrab gab.
SERVICE AREAS
Consists of:
• Imam room.
• security and servants room.
• Equipment and furniture store.
• Ablution area
• Washrooms
• garden
IMAM AND SERVANTS ROOMS
• Imam room shall be located in away to be easily reached from outside the mosque
directly.
• it shall have a door open from inside. or it to be in an appropriate place in the
mosque allowing the Imam to reach the platform (Mihrab) without stepping over
the worshipper.
• The room area shall not be less than 6 m² (for instance 2x3) minimum, and it shall
not exceeded (3x3)
ABLUTION AND WASHROOMS
• Washrooms and ablution places with open entrances
directly toward outside,
• For the purposes of reserving the privacy, the separation
between washrooms and ablution places should be
considered, except women washrooms which shall be
structured to open toward the distribution corridor and then
on women prayer hall.
• considering not to place washrooms towards Qeblah point
of worshipping
• direction (west) and the wind direction has to be
considered (North-western)
ACCESS
Entrances and Exits, Car parking, and Boundary
ENTRANCES AND EXITS
• Satisfactory entrances shall be provided to the mosque yard and it
shall be located to facilitate the worshipper entrance and exits.
• Shall be organized to avoid stepping over the worshippers.
• Shall separate women entrance totally from the men entrance.
• It’s preferred in the mosques accommodating more than 500
worshippers to have an emergency exit.
• Keeping the outside gates easy to open by the worshippers
especially old and kids worshippers as well as.
• its passages and corridors shall have an easy to use stairs and
slops.
CAR PARKING
• A satisfactory car parking shall be provided to the mosque for
better serving the worshipper who comes to pray by cars.
• It shall be appropriate and easy to reach it from the main road
• It shall be provided with the directions signage.
• It shall be 1 parking for every 30 worshipper.
BOUNDARY
In case of making an outside
boundary for the mosque for
security:
• Its height shall not be higher
than 3 m.
• 1m shall be from bricks and
the rest shall be from the iron
or any other material in a
way that facilitate the vision
into the mosque.
DECORATIONS
Decorations, and lighting
DECORATIONS
• in decorating the mosque must consider the simplicity and the general
beauty, clearness and quietness.
• Ensuring that the meaning of sovereignty and nobility in the general
internal and external structure of the mosque.
• Decorations shall be accredited as a local style.
• Considering Islamic architectural overview especially in constructing the
mosque which mostly depends on Arabic calligraphy and the plants and
geometric decorations.
LIGHTING
• The lighting shall be
sufficient in all the
mosque corners in
away allowing the
Quran reader who
setting in the floor to
see the Imam and
the speaker clearly.
• The outside lighting
and the internal yards
and corridors and
• the minaret should
be lighted in a way
that it should not
cause any visional
interference or noises
to the neighbours.
 CASE STUDIES
Melaka Straits Mosque, Malacca, Malaysia.

Kampung Hulu Mosque, Malacca, Malaysia.

KAMPUNG HULU MOSQUE MALACCA, MALAYSIA.
A traditional Malaysian mosque.
HISTORY
• The history of the mosque began when the Dutch ruler with
its open policy on religion had financed the construction of
this mosque around year 1728. However, some opinionated
that the mosque was built in 1720

• The mosque is located in the centre of Malacca city in the

district of Melaka Tengah which is now surrounded by
Chinese shops.

• The mosque was built by Dato' Samsudin bin Arom, an Before renovation
immigrant from China who converted to Islam with help of
local community.

• The mosque has been renovated and rebuilt into a

concrete building in 1892 to replace the timber building.

• it is one of the oldest mosques in Malaysia and also in

Southeast Asia still actively used and is often visited by
countless mosque goers from within and outside Malacca.

After renovation
ARCHITECTURE
• Its size is about 334.89 m² (18.30 m x 18.30 m).
• the space from the floor to the top of the roof is about
14.6 m.
• the architectural structure was based on the famous
Malay-Nusantara architecture which used four pillars
as the main pillar for the entire mosque.
• The mosque has 4 main pillars and 12 verandah pillars.
• The construction material on the walls of the mosque is
believed to be made from a mixture of white egg,
sand and granite.
• Belian or Ulin wood mostly imported from Kalimantan
used as the main pillar for the roof and said to be as
strong as concrete used nowadays.
• the minaret of the mosque and decorative motifs on
the roof that looks similar to the traditional elements of
Chinese architecture.
AESTHETICS AND DECORATIONS
• The mosque looks like a house
making the design different
from the mosque design of
the Middle East.
• The carvings on the roofs and
walls of the mosques that
symbolize motifs of nature are
produced by Malay
craftsmen.
• There are carvings on the roof
with motifs of ‘sulur bayur’,
‘mahkota’ and ‘awan larat’
that meets the Malay design
elements.
AESTHETICS AND DECORATIONS
• Plants influence much the
main criteria of the
architecture and the carvings
on the walls and roofs of the
mosque.
• The window frame at is
decorated with wood carvings
floral motif (see visual 28).
• A copper engraving Arabic
calligraphy decorates the
transom-like panel of the main
door.
MELAKA STRAITS MOSQUE MALACCA, MALAYSIA
A contemporary Malaysian mosque
OVERVIEW
• Located at a Man Made Island
named Island of Melaka.
• Designed by NameIkhwan Osman.
• Capacity: 2000 Worshippers.
• It is the one and only Mosque build
at the coast of the Strait and at the
water level of the sea.
• It will look like it’s floating if the
water level is high.
• The Mosque or known as ‘Masjid
Selat’, Costing about MYR10 Million
(8.8 million Dirhams).
• The Opening Ceremony was Done
in 24th November 2006 by the
Supreme Ruler of Malaysia.
ARCHITECTURE
• Built using the mix of Middle
Eastern and Malay
craftsmanship.
• It has Two intersecting
archways lead to the main
entrance.
• Stained glass covers the
space in between the
arches.
• The mosque has a 30-metre
minaret that's also used as a
lighthouse.
ARCHITECTURE
• It has a simple plan of a centralised
square with a symmetrical
composition of four smaller turrets at
its corners.
• Surrounding the internal spaces is a
long connecting perimeter deck
that provides access for patrons to
go around the mosque to enjoy the
surrounding sea views.
• The gigantic double equilateral
archways have architecture
sustainability features such as the
protruding pointed extrados that
double as sun-shading devices.
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Done by: Rawan Alsamairi