Hello friend Brilio, try taking a walk to the Malioboro area, and you will find a mosque. But this mosque is unusual, because it has a Chinese or Chinese-style building style. Named the Siti Djirzanah Mosque, it was built by the family of the former mayor of Jogja, Herry Zudianto.
According to the Takmir of the Mosque, Muhammad Ridwan, Mr. Herry Zudianto and their sisters, Mrs. Ellys Yudhiantie and Rudi Sastyawan, in this case they want to build a mosque and call it Siti Djirzanah, which is the name of their parents or mother.
The construction of the mosque was intended as a form of gratitude for their mother who died in 2015. This Chinese mosque was built on 147 square meters of land which can accommodate 200 worshipers. The blue-yellow color was chosen to maintain the characteristics of Chinese buildings. The facade of the mosque is decorated with writing in Mandarin which means mosque.
This Chinese mosque does not have a dome, the ridge is made to look like a temple. This Chinese-style mosque architecture is a recommendation from the DIY Culture Service. This mosque is open to the public from 4.30 am to 9 pm.
"From them directing that in this environment it could not be used for architecture other than Chinese, finally we changed this architecture to a Chinatown pattern." concluded Muhammad Ridwan.
(brl/red)
