Kerk Street Mosque is located in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is sometimes referred to as the Jumah Mosque. It is considered as one of Johannesburg’s oldest mosques and places of prayer. The mosque is located on stand 788.

The first Muslim settlement built a wood and corrugated iron house in 1906 after erecting a tent during the last years of the nineteenth century. The building of a structure with brick walls was finished in 1918. The current contemporary Kerk Street Mosque is the work of the South African practice Muhammad Mayet Architects and Egyptian architect Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, and is a finely crafted example of Islamic architecture built in 1990.

The National Monument Council designated the mosque as a national monument “because of its historical, artistic, and cultural value.” The Kerk Street Mosque has religious and cultural value and is connected to the Johannesburg Muslim community. The Kerk Street Mosque is a stunning structure with outstanding craftsmanship and design, giving it aesthetic significance.

The plot is 740 m2, and Sauer Street and Kerk Street form its boundaries. Although the location has been a mosque since the 1890s, the first permanent building was only put up there 76 years ago (1918). The commissioning of the current project was caused by structural collapse and inadequate amenities. The current mosque is distinctive in that its interior is laid out to face Makkah while yet adhering to Johannesburg’s city grid. That distance from Johannesburg is 11° east of the strictly northern pole. It was tilted inside to an accurate 11° and erected strictly along the northerly line of the roadway.

The current building contains several conventional architectural features, including domes, squinches, pendentives, fan vaults, and cross vaults. A craftsman from Egypt handled the wood carving, Moroccan artisans were flown in to complete the exquisite plasterwork, and Turkish experts carved the mosque’s beautiful marble decorations by hand. The façade is plastered and painted white, giving it a simple but opulent appearance that makes it possible to interpret the form easily.

The prayer hall is made up of several arches on pillars that are parallel to the Qibla wall and have segmental arches over supporting segmental vaults. The middle of the vaults are broken up by a dome that creates a central axis pointing toward Makkah. The great dome on the north side, which is placed on a drum and lets light into the interior immediately above the mihrab, emphasizes the direction of Makkah.

The structure is made of load-bearing brick and masonry and is supported by pile and raft concrete foundations. Because of this design, the mosque’s interior temperature never drops below 23 °C. At one time, it can hold up to 2000 people.