Location
Located in strategic areas City Centre Kuala Lumpur , National Mosque is located next to the Railway Station Malaysia , Bangunan Daya Bumi , General Post Malaysia, the Islamic Arts Museum , Kuala Lumpur Bird Park and near the Lake Gardens . National Mosque area measuring 13 acres and the main building to meet approximately 3 acres.All of the mosque is surrounded partly by concrete walls and partly by decorative fencing.Overall there are seven entrances. Facilities for non-Muslim tourists are provided as a public toilet of City Hall, located near the entrance of specific local and foreign tourists.
Prior to development of Shah Alam Mosque , Masjid Negara is one of the most modern mosques in Southeast Asia. It is located in an area of 13 acres, opposite the train stop was the Kuala Lumpur. The construction of this mosque symbolizes the spirit of unity and tolerance.
Architecture
Design and supervision of the building was done by a team of 3 architects from Design and Research Division, Federal Public Works Department - architect Hisham Albakri, Ashley Howard (UK), and Dato Baharuddin Kassim. They took three years to complete. Before starting the design is the National Mosque, the main architect, Baharuddin Abu Kassim review mosques in India , Pakistan , Iran , Turkey ,Saudi Arabia , United Arab Republic and Spain .
At first glance, the tower measures 73 meters (245 feet) tall it looks like a rocket. Shaped like a closed umbrella and the roof concrete corner 18 star-shaped umbrella looks like a flower. Beropol tower shape and roof is in the national mosque symbolizes loyalty. This concept is matched to the image of the Royal Umbrella. The tower is shaped umbrella image that terkuncup while the roof form as an open umbrella.
The main form of folded concrete roof is a creative solution to achieve a large area of the prayer hall. The building is priced at RM10 million, covering an area of five acres. It contains a prayer hall with an area of 22.500 square feet, conference hall, interment, library, office, site, tower, royal rooms and a room of the priest. Interment for the seven heroes of the country lies to the west. Also available are radio and television rooms are air-conditioned prayer hall is located in the gallery.
Its design is consistent with the design of modern buildings but still maintained the Islamic architecture. Appearance of the mosque is the result of a mixture of Islamic and modern patterns and embroidered local architecture.
Carvings iron bars that surround the building and the dom-dom in the small upper balcony is a design-based Sarasin, but he adapted to modern designs.
Tower
In the middle of the pool at the National Mosque is a mosque tower stand. It is used to echo the call to prayer every time sembahyang.Tingginya is 235 feet from the floor to the end of the symbol of the West.
In building this tower provided a lift to go up to the stage towers. The stage is 140 feet high from the ground. There is also a spiral staircase that provided in the elevator. Two mutually opposite walls of the tower each patched with limestone slabs and walls terazzo and two each against the other decorated with a lattice terazzo.
Top of the tower is packed with white glass mosaic. Car lift available in the tower. No window glass elevator car to allow passengers in the lift to see the city of Kuala Lumpur . The tower is illuminated by a light stripe, making it look attractive at night.
There are three large doors and a special door for the use of royalty. On the ground floor of the vestibule there is some room for ablution, a bathroom, a place to store shoes and rest room for those coming from outside Kuala Lumpur. Prior to the prayer hall on the first floor there is a great site. In the middle of this page there are 48 foot concrete umbrella while the other side there is a swimming-pool with a few showers to cool the surrounding conditions.
The prayer was walled reinforced concrete and mounted with Italian marble. There are nine lorot aluminum doors along the walls of the three sections. Several pieces of verses of the Quran is written across the wall above the door inside the prayer hall. Paper measuring two feet high and made with a golden mosaic of shiny blue. Beropol roof that radiates red light, costume made was in the midst of the grid overlay terrazzo throughout the gallery. Umbrella-shaped concrete roof decorated with flowers and glass mosaic and white gold.
Roof measuring 84 feet high that has a diameter of 200 feet and is supported by 16 other pillars of the size of the 3 feet in diameter. The pillars paved with terrazzo. In the middle there is an aluminum roof that is engraved with verses of the Quran - a replica of the dome as the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Formerly a triangular-shaped mihrabnya like doors, but has been modified as a curved arch. This sanctuary inlaid verses in the Quran calligraphy Morocco. Front wall surrounding the chamber was modified according to the architecture Morocco.Pulpit, a priest preaching lies to the right of the mihrab. Pulpit shaped like a balcony was built out of wood.
Flatter than the four parts of the wall is a gallery for women and visitors who wish to participate in the prayer hall. Part of the gallery was decorated by a cloud of lattice laratnya clearly Islamic culture and old to resemble a cloud is found at the mosque and Patehphur Sikri Taj Mahal in India. Lattice exterior paved with terrazzo. The nine gates and lattice galleries bring sunshine into the prayer hall as well as decorative lights, lights hidden in the roof and aluminum rosette of 16 slap light (chandelier) gift from the kings, governors, and former Governor of Singapore.Prayer hall that can accommodate 3.000 5.000 congregation and can accommodate more people at home are available at all three sides of the hall. Home is insulated from the outside by the curtain of aluminum lattice with cloudy terawangnya old to the original Islam. The floor was constructed from pieces terrazo while also constructed of concrete roof and a few small dome dome built of blue tiles. In the west there is a complex of conference halls. The great thing is that the concrete roof undulate. House bertiraikan lattice terrazo outside. Air-conditioned hall that can accommodate 500 people representative of a religious conference. There is also a library.
The desire to build a mosque arose a month before Independence Day. A ceremony formerly known as the Federal Council decided to establish a mosque as a token of appreciation to former Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the service-service to the public.After gaining independence, the Conference of Rulers approve the project. However, the Tunku did not want the mosque was named after her, but rather suggest it was named "National Mosque."
In 1987, as modified by the comprehensive National Mosque, and the roof of the former is now shining with a dull green and blue tiles. Today, the National Mosque stand tall and elegant legs sky Kuala Lumpur. Underground passage connecting the National Mosque Car Fire Station, along Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin. Near the mosque is the Heroes Cemetery , burial place of several Malaysian politicians. Heroes Cemetery also has a concrete roof structure of the star vertex 7.
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