Islamic Center Samarinda
Samarinda in East Kalimantan has a new icon, it is Samarinda Islamic Center Mosque. The mosque is located on the banks of the Mahakam River. Samarinda Islamic Center Mosque is a mosque located in the village of Ulu Lerong Bay, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. This mosque is the grandest and the second largest mosque in Southeast Asia after Istiqlal Mosque. In the foreground of the Mahakam river banks, this mosque has a tower and a large dome that stands upright.
Islamic Center Samarinda
This mosque has a main building area of 43 500 square meters. For supporting a building area is 7115 square meters and floor area of 10 235 square meter basement. 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. This location was previously a former land area owned by Inhutani I, which later granted to the Government of East Kalimantan Province.
The building of this mosque has a tower in which as many as seven 99-meter-high main tower meaningful Asmaul Husna or names of God that amount in 99. The main tower consists of the building 15 floors each floor as high as six meters on average. Meanwhile, steps from ground floor to the main floor of the mosque in number as many as 33 steps. This amount is deliberately equated with a third number of seed beads.
In addition to the main tower, the building also has six towers at the side of the mosque. Each of these four in every corner of the mosque as high as 70 meters and two towers at the gate as high as 57 meters. Six of the tower is also significant as the six pillars of faith.
Islamic Development Center can also be expected to evoke the spirit of togetherness in an effort to face the global era, in addition to a public demand for Samarinda has an adequate place of worship facilities.
Islamic Center Samarinda
How to get there?
There is a direct flight from Singapore to Balikpapan (Sepinggan Airport) in East Kalimantan. Balikpapan is the gate if we come to East Kalimantan. From Balikpapan you can hire taxi to Samarinda, it cost about IDR 250.000.
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Reference : wikipedia.org
