A Modernist Mosque

Architect Ridwan Kamil designed a cube-shaped mosque made of stone. Simple, yet essential, it was nominated for Building of the Year 2010.

March 2, 2011

THE mosque sits on a small hill right on the main road. Without ornamentation and without a dome, it just looks like piles of grey and black stones shaped into a large cube. Three of its corners are open with entrances from the east and the north.

The pile of black stones has holes in it so that air and light flow to the inside of the structure. In size it is five centimeters wider than the grey stones so that it appears to protrude out of the s

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