Great Mosque of Makassar, Islamic mosque in Makassar City, Indonesia.
The Great Mosque of Makassar is a two-storey mosque on Jl. Bulusaraung, built with about 80 percent local materials. It has two minarets 66.66 metres tall and can hold 10,000 worshippers. The complex also houses a library and the South Sulawesi office of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI).
Initiated in 1947 by K.H. Ahmad Bone, a scholar from Bone Regency, who appointed K.H. Muchtar Lutfi to lead the committee, the mosque was designed by Muhammad Soebardjo after he won a contest and built on 25 May 1949 on a 13,912 m² former Exelsior Makassar football field. It was fully overhauled from February 1999, with the groundbreaking by Governor Zainal Basri Palaguna on 9 October 1999, and renovation ran until 2005.
The mosque hosted Indonesia's first national Musabaqah Tilawatil Quran, a Qur'an recitation contest, in 1955. Its library and the South Sulawesi office of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) sit in the complex, so the building is used for study and religious administration as well as prayer.
The mosque stands on Jl. Bulusaraung on a 13,912-square-metre plot, with prayer halls on two floors and two minarets 66.66 metres tall. A library and the South Sulawesi MUI office are in the complex. Visitors should dress modestly and avoid the halls during Friday prayers and other services.
The mosque stands on a 13,912-square-metre plot that was the Exelsior Makassar football field, donated for the construction. The first Musabaqah Tilawatil Quran, Indonesia's national Qur'an recitation contest, was held here in 1955. Sukarno prayed Friday prayers here in 1957 and Soeharto in 1967.
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