The initial construction of this mosque began on April 5, 2000. It is located on the Al Zaytun Campus, precisely in Mekarjaya Village, Haurgeulis Indramayu District, West Java. Built on an area of 6.5 hectares and has 7 floors measuring 99 x 99 meters. The seventh floor is called the roof of the mosque, the only mosque whose roof can accommodate approximately 4000 worshipers.
In addition, this mosque has five domes: one large dome surrounded by four smaller domes a quarter circle. The four small domes are symbols of the four major schools of thought in the world: Hanafi, Maliki, Safi'i and Hambali. While the big dome is the treatise of Muhammad that houses the four schools of thought. And at the top of each corner of the mosque there are eight domes that symbolize the eight cardinal directions as symbols of all corners of the world.
This mosque has a total height of 73,125 meters to the top of the dome, where from each floor worshipers can see the imam in the mihrab, the mihrab itself has a height of 15 meters. The construction, foundation and interior of this mosque are designed to last hundreds to thousands of years. The foundation of this mosque is designed to withstand earthquakes because it uses a ship foundation or by civil engineers it is called Raft Foundation. How it works: when an earthquake occurs, the mosque is like a ship in the cradle of the sea waves. Meanwhile, the foundation structure is using nails.
The framework of this mosque uses the best quality steel in the world which is imported from Indonesia Poland, Russia and Korea. The number of steel piles used as the structure reached 4,117 steel piles, consisting of 3,812 WF steel and 305 H.300 steel.
The Rahmatan Lil-Alamin Mosque is a contemporary traditional style. Its design includes mosques around the world. The shape of the arch in the mihrab, for example, adopts an arch maqsura the Cordoba mosque built by the Umayyads. While the shape of the arch at the four main gates of the mosque adopts the arch commonly used in mosques in Egypt built by the Fatimids.
Unlike most mosques in Indonesia, which were built with assistance from the Middle East, and we should be proud that the construction of the Rahmatan Lil-Alamin mosque was purely financial. joint/joint venture and architected by the Indonesian people themselves.
End of December 2014, Sheikh Al Zaytun AS. Panji Gumilang launched a program for the completion of the Rahmatan Lil-Alamin Mosque called JAMMAS (Jahe Ma'had Al Zaytun Building a Mosque), namely by planting ginger, the results of which were later used to complete the construction of the RLA (Rahmatan Lil-Alamin) Mosque. It's a beautiful and elegant way that would be an inspiration for all of us.
Sunnah.
