Teluk Bayur Grand Mosque
mosque in West Sumatra, Indonesia
Key facts
- Built
- 1937
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Overview
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The Teluk Bayur Grand Mosque (Masjid Raya Teluk Bayur), also called Surau Ateh, stands in the South Padang district of Padang, West Sumatra, close to the Port of Teluk Bayur. Besides serving as a place of worship, it also has an educational role: its first floor is used for religious instruction and as a study space for a pesantren, an Islamic boarding school.
History
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The site is associated with a surau, a local Islamic assembly building, that is recorded as having stood since the 17th century. The building standing there today was constructed during the Dutch colonial period and is recorded as built in 1937.
From Wikipedia
The Teluk Bayur Grand Mosque (Indonesian: Masjid Raya Teluk Bayur), also known as Surau Ateh, is an old mosque in Indonesia which is located near the Port of Teluk Bayur, South Padang district, Padang, West Sumatra. Although the mosque was previously a surau (Islamic assembly building) which was recorded to have stood since the 17th century, the building that stands at its current location was built during the Dutch colonization around the 19th century.
Today, other than being used as a religious site of Islam, the first floor of the mosque is also used as an educational place for the religion and a studying place for Pesantren (Islamic boarding school).
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Sources
Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teluk_Bayur_Grand_Mosque
Wikipedia (id): https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Raya_Teluk_Bayur