This is the Muhammadi mosque in Kota Bahru, Kelantan, one of the places I would visit whenever I'm at the predominantly Malay city...
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As I've made an article showing some pictures in and around the mosque at the blogspot
SENI LAMA MELAYU (MALAY OLDEN ART) (titled
Masjid (mosque of) Muhammadi, Kota Bahru, Kelantan... ) half a year ago, it's good to put the pictures taken from my most recent trip to the East Coast into this blogspot.
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The lates visit made two weeks ago had one extra feature compared to previous visits. For the first time, I took some aerial pictures of this mosque... at least you can call this an aerial picture as it is taken at some measure above ground level...
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For the first ever, I actually climbed up one of the four towers there. Which is quite strange when I think again about it. How come all this while I never felt like going up there?
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So here's a look at the city's main historical square from the mosque...
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A look of the tower's top from inside. I could have climbed up these stairs but what's the point? There's not enough opening for me to take a decent look at the outside from up there...
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And this is the spiral staircase leading up the tower...
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I then went down and had a look around. It just occured to me that normally historical mosque like this one would have an information plaque somewhere. So I went looking for it and found it at one corner just outside the compound. Strange, all this while I never even bothered to look for it...
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Time to leave the mosque...
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OK. I might be more particular during this trip as this time I was not only visiting the mosque. I must have a good look at it from as many angles as this visit was made to include the Muhammadi mosque in a coffee-table book on mosques in Malaysia I'm working on.
My photographer Shamsul Yunos wanted to take an aerial picture of the mosque. So we went to a hotel nearby and asked permission to get on top. For the record, the pictures here were all taken by me using an automatic digital camera. Shamsul took his using a professional SLR camera with big lenses...
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From up there, we also got a good look of the mosque and the historical surroundings in relation to the mighty Kelantan river...
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A look at the main historical square in front of two palaces now turned into museums...
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And a look at the skyline. Cheers! :]
1 comment:
Every year, in Ramadhan, i've tried to stay there for at least one night since 7yrs back (means its already 7 times including this years). I was there for buka puasa, tarawikh, qiamullail and sahur.. This mosque is the one an only which really 'alive' during Ramadhan.... Can't feel it in any other places...
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