The Wapauwe Mosque is located in the old village of Kaitetu. The remains of Portuguese buildings lie such as the Portuguese Church and the Portuguese Trading Post, which were later established by the Dutch as a fortress  A humble wooden mosque has been granted. Caring by both the Christian and Muslim communities in the villages. The 15th-century mosque is maintained in its original wooden form without nails. but tied with a fiber rope. 

The 15th century mosque has been maintained by keeping its original wooden form, using no nails but tied with ijuk fiber ropes. The original wooden construction of the mosque is retained, using no nails or pegs. The main mosque is about 10 x 10 meters wide with an additional porch of roughly 40 square meters. The architectural style follows the typical traditional mosque architecture in Indonesia with multi-tiered roofs, supported with the saka guru pillars, and no minaret.

The multi-tiered roof is supported with four main columns known as the saka guru. The roof is topped with a wooden tip mounted perpendicular to the top. These main pillars were made of kanjoli or bintanggur wood (Calophyllum soulattri) which grows in abundance in the coastal area of Tanah Hitu.

The walls are covered in gaba-gaba (dried sago fronds) as well as the thatched roof. The wooden main door is decorated with spearhead-shaped wooden ornaments inscribed with calligraphic writings of God and Muhammad on its four corners, and a turtle-shaped brass plate etched with a Salawat invocation.