Grand Jami Mosque, at Malang

Jami Mosque 'which is located at Jalan Merdeka Barat No. 3 Malang is also not free from these functions. Moreover, the position of the Great Mosque Jami 'inception Malang named Masjid Jami' it is located quite a strategic center of town. Precisely in west central square of Malang city. To the south of the mosque there is a building of Bank Mandiri (eks. Bank Bumi Resources) and in the north there are office buildings BNI Life Insurance.


Jami Mosque 'Malang was established in 1890 AD on the ground or ground state Goepernemen about 3,000 m2. According to the existing inscription, Jami Mosque 'built in two phases. The first stage was built in 1890 AD, then the second phase began on March 15, 1903, and completed on September 13, 1903. The building of this mosque is square shaped steel structure with a roof tajug overlap of two, and to this original building is still maintained its existence.

Judging from its shape, the Great Mosque Jami 'Malang has two styles of architecture, the architecture of Java and Arabic architecture. Javanese architectural style of the mosque roof forms visible from the old buildings that shaped tajug. While the style of Arabian architecture seen from the form of minarets and domes on the arch construction also in the fields of openings (doors and windows).

Basically all parts of the building Jami Mosque 'Malang began to limit the sacred is sacred. This is implied by the difference peil floor looks striking, where the sacred floor of the building approximately 105 cm from the face of the land surrounding the building. At the mihrab (the priest) is more sacred anymore, it is implied by the elevation of peil floor in that section. Even now behind the mihrab there are still some ancestral tomb founder of the mosque.