Al-Azhar Great Mosque, Islamic sanctuary in South Jakarta, Indonesia

Al-Azhar Great Mosque is an Islamic sanctuary in South Jakarta with minarets and domes rising across two levels. Its main prayer hall occupies the upper level and forms the center of this sprawling religious complex.

Fourteen Masyumi Party figures proposed a mosque and school in Kebayoran Baru, founding the Islamic Boarding School Foundation on 7 April 1952. Construction began on 19 November 1953 and finished in 1958, when the mosque, first called Masjid Agung Kebayoran Baru, was Jakarta's largest until Istiqlal Mosque opened in 1978. In 1960 Sheikh Mahmud Syaltut, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Cairo, suggested the name Al-Azhar during a state visit, honouring Buya Hamka, its imam from 1959.

The mosque's name was proposed in 1960 by Sheikh Mahmud Syaltut, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Cairo, during a state visit, as recognition of Buya Hamka's role. Hamka, its first great imam from 1959, made the mosque a centre of dakwah in Jakarta. A kindergarten opened on the complex in 1967.

The mosque stands on Jalan Sisingamangaraja in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, behind a black metal gateway with round medallions. Enter through that gate; the prayer hall is on the upper level above the arched ground-floor openings. A tall stone monument with inscribed panels stands to the right of the building. The grounds also hold a kindergarten, founded in 1967.

The mosque was renamed Al-Azhar in 1960, when Sheikh Mahmud Syaltut, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Cairo, proposed the name during a state visit to Indonesia. The change honoured Buya Hamka, who had led the mosque as its grand imam since 1959.