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Rao Rao Mosque

Rao Rao Mosque, Mosque in Nagari Rao Rao, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Rao Rao Mosque is a prayer hall with a four-layered curved roof and corner towers that display Persian architectural elements in its square interior space. The site includes two entrance staircases, traditional ablution pools, and a separate two-story building called Markaz built in 2001.

The building was constructed in 1908 on land donated by H. Mohammad Thaib Caniago, replacing an earlier structure known as Atap Ijuk Mosque. Despite earthquake damage in 1926 and 2009, the structure has endured through major seismic events in the region.

The mosque's permanent minbar, installed in 1930, measures 3 × 1.38 metres and stands 3.1 metres tall, decorated with broken ceramic glass. At the October 2008 centenary, regent Shadiq Pasadigoe noted that two other mosques in West Sumatra were built to resemble this one: Masjid Saadah in Nagari Gurun and Masjid Raya Koto Baru in Sungai Pagu, South Solok.

The mosque stands on the road from Batusangkar to Bukittinggi in Nagari Rao Rao. A two-storey Markaz building (7 × 10 m, finished 2001) is on its left, and the Darul Huda religious school, renamed in 1982, is on its right. The prayer hall is on one floor, reached by entrance stairs.

The mosque has never undergone a major restoration. Work has been limited to straightening the leaning minaret in 1975 and replacing all the old ceramic tiles with new ones in the 1990s, so the floor tiles seen today are not the originals.

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