Peace be upon you all. After making the piece titled New trip to the East Coast - Tomb and mosque of Tok Ku Paloh revisited last Friday, let's have another 'revisited' piece. Here it is...
This is the Muhammadi mosque in Kota Bahru, Kelantan, one of the places I would visit whenever I'm at the predominantly Malay city...
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.
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...
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?
So here's a look at the city's main historical square from the mosque...
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...
And this is the spiral staircase leading up the tower...
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...
Time to leave the mosque...
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...
From up there, we also got a good look of the mosque and the historical surroundings in relation to the mighty Kelantan river...
A look at the main historical square in front of two palaces now turned into museums...
And a look at the skyline. Cheers! :]
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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