ISLAMIC SITE: samarinda islamic center mosque, the largest mosque in southeast asia

Alhamdulillah, my heart glad to visit in the city of Samarinda edge. For the umpteenth time I was to come into town which is about 2 hours journey by bus transport from balikpapan. The city is very thick with the culture and traditions that are more nuanced Islami.dan fun again this time I can visit the most magnificent mosques in southeast asia, samarinda mosque islamic center.

A year ago, the Islamic Center Mosque is in the process of development and this year seemed to be almost done. Beautiful mosques of Islam reflects the strong, especially during Ramadan I come so nuances increases. Islamic center, purpose built mosque is certainly a center of worship in the city of Samarinda.

I was given a chance to get there. Located in the Mahakam river. The town is rich in agricultural products. Clean and neat is that terbesit in my mind when I passed the Islamic mosque area. Suitable for release fatigue, refreshing from routine .... making fresh n fit our minds.

From a distance it looks magnificent mosque and beautiful with some frequency looming tower. The building was built at a cost of more than Rp500 billion in launch by the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on June 16, 2008.

The building of this mosque has a main dome and gold ornaments are very pretty. Design inspiration huge mosque is derived from the Nabawi Mosque in Medina, the religious atmosphere, combined with the artistic Great Mosque in Turkey. Nabawi Mosque in Medina was known to have ornaments and calligraphy are quite amazing. In addition, this historic building has enough physical endurance strength for old age, but still shows grace. While the mosques in Turkey known to have a beautiful artistic. Not only the form of ornaments that decorated the mosque only, but also the building shape.

Another specialty of this mosque is the use of granite in the main tower. The mosque is built with quality materials best able to survive hundreds of years. Mosque Islamic Center is expected to be a religious tourism because is equipped with 99-meter-high tower that enables visitors to see the whole area from a height of Samarinda.

Samarinda Islamic Center complex built on approximately 12 acres of land with total building area reaches 50 thousand m2 and equipped with various facilities such as hospitals equipped with an Emergency Unit, building kindergartens and elementary schools, even a Business Center equipped with a hotel, office complex, and shops that make this compound is claimed as the finest and largest in Southeast Asia.
Located in the village of Karang Asam, Samarinda Ilir, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, this mosque has a main building area 43,500 square meters. Broad support for the building is 7115 square feet and the basement area of 10,235 square meters. While the ground floor of the mosque area of 10,270 square meters and the main floor area of 8185 square meters. While mezanin floor area (balcony) is 5290 square meters. That clearly is not immense?