اللغات

Sultan Mosque


History


When Singapore was ceded to the British in 1819, Temenggong Abdul Rahman, the Temenggong of Johor, and Sultan Hussain Shah of Johor, under whose jurisdiction Singapore fell, acquired small fortunes in exchange for their power. Sir Stamford Raffles also granted the Temenggong and the Sultan an annual stipend and the use of Kampong Glam for their residence.

The area around Kampong Glam was also allocated for Malays and other Muslims. Hussain built a palace there and brought his family and a complete entourage from the Riau islands. Many of the Sultan's and Temenggong's followers came to Kampong Glam from the Riau Islands, Malacca and Sumatra.

Sultan Hussain then decided to build a mosque befitting his status. He constructed a mosque next to his palace from 1824 to 1826 with funds solicited from the East India Company. With a two-tiered pyramidal roof, it was of a typical design. The original building was replaced with a new mosque.

The management of the mosque was headed by Alauddin Shah, the Sultan's grandson, until 1879, when he passed the torch into five community leaders. In 1914, the lease was extended by the government for a further 999 years and a new board of trustees was appointed, with two representatives from each faction of the Muslim community.

By the early 1900s, Islamic commerce, culture and art had grown in Singapore. Sultan Mosque soon became too small for this burgeoning community. In 1924, the year of the mosque's centenary, the trustees approved a plan to erect a new mosque. The old mosque had by then also fallen into a state of disrepair.

Urban and Architectural


Santry received the then-fashionable Indo-Saracenic fashion for his work, characterized by the borrowing of Indian and Persian structural components with the utilize of present day development materials and strategies. The mosque made generous utilize of common Indo-Saracenic themes such as minarets, onion arches, cusped curves, domed chhatri, and apexes.

Description


The magnificent Sultan Mosque In the historic Kampong Glam district is the spiritual center of Singapore's Muslim fraternity.

Details

الموقع

3 Muscat St, Singapore 198833

عدد المصليين

5000

المالك / المتبرع

Sir Stamford Raffles

المعماري

Denis Santry

تاريخ البناء

1932

الرسومات المعمارية

الخريطة

History

When Singapore was ceded to the British in 1819, Temenggong Abdul Rahman, the Temenggong of Johor, and Sultan Hussain Shah of Johor, under whose jurisdiction Singapore fell, acquired small fortunes in exchange for their power. Sir Stamford Raffles also granted the Temenggong and the Sultan an annual stipend and the use of Kampong Glam for their residence.

The area around Kampong Glam was also allocated for Malays and other Muslims. Hussain built a palace there and brought his family and a complete entourage from the Riau islands. Many of the Sultan's and Temenggong's followers came to Kampong Glam from the Riau Islands, Malacca and Sumatra.

Sultan Hussain then decided to build a mosque befitting his status. He constructed a mosque next to his palace from 1824 to 1826 with funds solicited from the East India Company. With a two-tiered pyramidal roof, it was of a typical design. The original building was replaced with a new mosque.

The management of the mosque was headed by Alauddin Shah, the Sultan's grandson, until 1879, when he passed the torch into five community leaders. In 1914, the lease was extended by the government for a further 999 years and a new board of trustees was appointed, with two representatives from each faction of the Muslim community.

By the early 1900s, Islamic commerce, culture and art had grown in Singapore. Sultan Mosque soon became too small for this burgeoning community. In 1924, the year of the mosque's centenary, the trustees approved a plan to erect a new mosque. The old mosque had by then also fallen into a state of disrepair.

Urban and Architectural

Santry received the then-fashionable Indo-Saracenic fashion for his work, characterized by the borrowing of Indian and Persian structural components with the utilize of present day development materials and strategies. The mosque made generous utilize of common Indo-Saracenic themes such as minarets, onion arches, cusped curves, domed chhatri, and apexes.

Description

The magnificent Sultan Mosque In the historic Kampong Glam district is the spiritual center of Singapore's Muslim fraternity.