Modern Mosques Research Articles

Evaluation of Spatial Fictions, Design Concepts, Aesthetic Quests of Traditional, Modern Mosques from Past to Present and the Analysis of Mosque Samples

Evaluation of Spatial Fictions, Design Concepts, Aesthetic Quests of Traditional, Modern Mosques from Past to Present and the Analysis of Mosque Samples

Health Factors in Islamic Perspectives and its Relation to Sustainability with Case Study at Traditional and Modern Mosque

The study elucidates how health consideration integrated to the traditional, conventional and modern mosque design in Bangladesh. A literature survey is conducted to understandard the definition of health based on Islamic perspective. The purpose is to compare its sustainability and relationship with traditional and present design pattern of mosque. The literature study identifies four primary factors on health in the mosque design associated with natural lighting, ventilator, location of toilets and rainwater discharge. Analysis comprises design on natural lighting related to sun shading and indirect lighting, rainwater discharge related to rainwater deflection and leakages and wall openings related to natural cross air ventilation. In this study, Kalitikor Central Mosque, Bandar based on traditional pattern, Noyashorok Jamia Mosque and Amborkhana Jamia Mosque were chosen as modern type mosque. The analysis however shows the weakness that Kalitikor Central Mosque and Amborkhana Jamia Mosque design does not apply enough windows in the construction for opening furthermore Amborkhana Jamia Mosque design includes toilet facilities within the mosque. Noyashorok Jamia Mosque have sufficient opening in Back and left side however Amborkhana and Nayashork both of the mosque have no open windows facilities in it’s right hand side. The traditional toilet system is also a threat to health and safety factor. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jesnr.v5i1.11547 J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 5(1): 01-08, 2012

Modern mosque lamps: electricity in the historic monuments and tourist attractions of French colonial Fez, Morocco (1925–1950)

During the French Protectorate, administrators enacted laws to preserve pre-twentieth-century Moroccan cities for Western tourists’ appreciation. However, as residents’ desires for contemporary technology grew, officials also sanctioned the modernization of some inhabited historic monuments. In at least one city (madīna), Fez, the structures included centuries-old religious boarding schools, the medersas in French language documents. The following article draws upon the administrative records of conserving and modernizing the Fez madīna to explore how the installation of electricity in its medersas resulted in technology and styles that blended and expanded the legal definition of Fassi Moroccan visual character. Inhabitants’ responses and redefinitions are additionally considered. This article therefore brings into conversation the histories of technology and French colonial urbanism while augmenting each discourse with analysis of local actors and innovation within a madīna under aesthetic regulations.

ANALISIS HADITS DALAM PERMASALAHAN PERANCANGAN MASJID MODERN DI MALAYSIA

<p>This paper tries to make a documentation and analysis based on the second source of Islam which is Prophetic traditions in providing an alternative approach for the design of modern mosques in Malaysia. This research is done by gathering traditions from the compilation of al-Bukhari and Muslim which are then being interpreted and used as a framework to answer different type of problem, issue, crisis in mosque design in Malaysia. The study is divided into two main sections. The first section contains issues and problems in mosque design in Malaysia while the second section try to analyze the compilation of hadith in attempt to view issue and problems in mosque design in Malaysia. It is expected that through this paper we can understand the use of Prophetic traditions as one of the main foundations and framework for the present and the future modern mosque designs in Malaysia.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>K</strong><strong>e</strong><strong>y</strong><strong>w</strong><strong>o</strong><strong>r</strong><strong>d</strong>: Prophetic tradition, modern mosque design, Islamic architecture</p>

Significance of Inlay Work in the Modern Mosque at Islamabad

This research papergives a comprehensive study of the structural forms, decorative designsand inlay work of themiḥrāb, marble fountain and kursi built in the sanctuary of the Faisal MosqueIslamabad. At first inlay work with lapis lazuli on themiḥrābof the mosque is mentioned. Secondly golden metallic inlay decoration of the walls and floor of the marble fountain is explained and lastly the technique is discussed with the reference to the kursi built in the sanctuary of the mosque.The technique is discussed along with knowledge of their historical applications in mosques throughout the Islamic world. The rich selection of geometric designs for these elements is described. Picture and drawings are by the author. The study is accompanied by one picture and six drawings.

DESKRIPSI TIPOLOGI, KLASIFIKASI DAN ANALISIS PERANCANGAN MASJID DI MALAYSIA

As one of the countries with the largest muslim communities in Southeast Asia, the study of Islamic architecture, especially the architecture of modern mosques in Malaysia, has not yet been done intensively. Most of the studies and documentation carried out were more focused in the study of old mosques which were considered as more valuable historically with a more unique traditional architecture. This paper will attempt to describe the typology of form and visual style of the mosques (as the main building of Islamic architecture) developed in Malaysia, ranging from traditional mosques in the area of remote villages to modern mosques in urban areas. This study is very important in recognizing aspects of morphology, the influence, and the development of mosque design in Malaysia which will become a reference in designing the mosque, especially in this country in the future. The discussion itself will consists of the Traditional Vernacular Mosque Architecture of Malaysia, a Sino Eclectic Mosques in Malaysia, the European Classical Mosque in Malaysia, the North Indian Mosque in Malaysia, the Malaysia’s Vernacular Mo dern Mosque, the Modern Expressionism Revivalism Mosque in Malaysia and the Post-Modern Mosque in Malaysia. It is expected that this study would give an idea of the various approaches and the development of mosque design in Malaysia in order to recognize the ideas and thoughts of Islamic architecture in Malaysia.<br />

Pengaruh Modernisme terhadap Aplikasi Ragam Hias pada Desain Masjid Salman-ITB Karya Ahmad Noe’man

This research will focus on the Ir. Achmad Noe'man perspective symptoms of decoration on the Salman ITB mosque that are designed around 5 (five) decades ago, namely in 1959. Methodologically this study is a descriptive research approach to the Social History of Art. Objects are selected based on observation and the assumption that the role of decoration in the mosque he designed had a very strong reduction compared to the tradition of decorating the mosque during this time both in Indonesia and foreign countries. Ornamental pattern as the heart of Islamic art is not as important anymore in the eyes of the architect. And of course it contains a variety of reasons or background concepts and ideas that cannot be separated from the situation at that time. In Salman mosque seemed how strong the desire of Achmad Noe'man to go with the flow and current popularity of modernism which is too simple and functional, also inspired by the purism, though as a Muslim architect, he has the concept and other perceptions about the value of beauty in a more contemplative and transcendent. That is, although the ideology that is reflected in the Salman mosque is very secular in accordance with the concept of modernism, but Achmad Noe'man not lose power as well as spiritual. From the observations made can be concluded that the spirit factor of the time was very influential towards the constellation of decoration on some modern mosques in Indonesia at that time (Istiqlal, for example), but understanding the sense in the application shift of decoration on the modern mosque's created by Noe'man Achmad means that it also refers to the private contemplation (inner value) which tend to be more stable than the influence of his understanding of the flow of thought, academic factors, political, and spirits that tend to be volatile times like a fashion phenomenon.