Mosque as a community development center in Sumberpucung Malang: Theme Islamic Architecture

Mosque literary means a place of worship. The root of mosque word is sajada which means prostration. In Prophet Muhammad (pbuh.) period, scope of worship applied largely in a mosque, that are includes five times prayer, recitation, discussion and review of al-Qur’an, ukhuwah or good relationship so mosque be able to becomes as community development center. At the same time, based the observation about the condition of Indonesia, apparently held much of narrowness about the function of mosque from the first function that exampled by The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh.) Based on the description above, the mosque could create a society that not only Muslims, but also have a character who always give priority to Islamic human relationship with God (habluminallah), human relations (habluminannas), and the human relationship with nature (habluminal'alam). Besides the narrowness functions, the mosque in Indonesia have also experienced a shift in intentions that are not based on piety as stated in al-Quran Sura at-Taubah ayah 109 that is constructed by the existence of a historical architecture construction through a process based on social and political forces. Furthermore, Sumberpucung as site design is one area that has have social problems, which is still less than it aqidah of society as shown by the majority of its people embraced Islam Abangan (Javanese Islam), besides the presence of missionary practices, prostitution and so forth, so that this community desperately need a place to solve their problems. Meanwhile, social problems of the society can not also be discussed and resolved in their presents mosque which should have been a developer of society because of some architectural issues which occur in the institution. Therefore, the design of the mosque as a center for community development in the Sumberpucung is expected to be one way of solved social and architectural problems. The theme used in the design of this mosque is “Islamic Architecture” with emphasis on the principles of “Habluminallah, Habluminannas, and Habluminal'alam”. This theme was chosen because it is considered as a comprehensive manner which will be able to resolve the existing problems in the site.

Name dc:type.qualificationname

other

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

undergraduate

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Handryant, Aisyah Nur

• 12010101 Islamic Architecture
• 12010901 Mosques and Minaret

Language dc:language

en