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An-Nur Pare Mosque

Like most mosques in Indonesia, Javanese architecture can be seen on the roof of the mosque, which is the roof of the building to its parent and tajug joglo roof to the building entrance. In order to impress expressive, designed berebntuk tajug pyramid roof on top, with a slope angle sharpened in such a way that gained the impression the roof which rises into the sky. Tajug roofed buildings and joglo that, supposedly, has been known since the time of the Kingdom Kahuripan and Doho.

An-Nur Mosque Pare

In traditional Javanese architecture, typically roof or joglo tajug supported four cornerstone. In An-Nur Mosque Pare, each pillar was doubled to four cornerstone. The fourth pillar is held together by fastening beams that intersect each other in the middle with the oblique direction upwards and united on the cusp crossing. At this point the beam supporting space frame used for the construction of the roof rests. Space frame structure was chosen for the roof framework aims to give the impression of light is expressed by rerangka space frame, which was deliberately not closed to the ceiling, so that in contrast to the impression kokohnya-arrangement of beams and pillars supporting pillar.

The design of the Great Mosque of An-Nur Pare was inspired by John Portman, architect of American origin. One of the most prominent element of the house are its columns. Di'ledak'kan column or di'bengkok'kan (exploded column), which emptied therein and specifically functionalized to the circulation between spaces and stairs connecting the ground floor and upper floors. Di'bengkok'kan columns were used designer for the columns outside the mosque, with the aim to provide an appropriate proportion to the distance a column defending the three traffee the outside. It also provides a contrast between the robust circular column with a field width of the transparent glass walls on the first floor. Field of the glass wall is necessary to give the impression of free on the pilgrims from inside the mosque who want to look into the garden beyond.

An-Nur Mosque Pare is located on Jalan Sudirman Commander, Pare, Kediri, became an important representation for local communities. Aside from being a place of worship, the mosque was built in 1996, is also a center of Islamic symbols in the Pare and Kediri. Construction of the mosque in an area of ​​about 4 hectares of land this was stopped because of the monetary crisis of 1997, but eventually successfully completed at a cost of about Rp. 200 billion. It was a huge development costs for the size of a mosque, but to be fair when be visited the mosque named after Kyai Nurwahid, the famous Islamic warriors who were buried in the village of Pare Tulung Rejo, Pare.

Architectural concept is what drove the Great Mosque of An-Nur Pare was awarded First Place International Competition for Architectural Design category of the mosque, including the utilization of modern technology in architecture mosque. This award is given by the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order to commemorate 100 years of the founding of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the end of January 1999.
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