The history of the flying bowl
mosque
Nurul
Huda Mosque is a well-known mosque in Meulaboh, because it has been built for a
long time ago. Most people knew this mosque because its mystery. Who won’t be
amazed by the most famous mosque in Aceh, according to my source, from one of
the citizen in Meulaboh, this mosque is known by flying bowl. I ask why it is
called flying bowl. Then, the citizen told that in old days this mosque usually
made a lot of banquets like mauled and fasting break, so every people has one
bowl of meals. The citizen of this city will be judged as bad person if
they were not bringing the bowl back. Mysteriously, the bowl will be vanished
in bad people house and appear in the mosque itself but no one knows how this
peculiar circumstance happened. The elder gave an imagination that this bowl
flew back to the mosque. That’s why, the mosque is called flying bowl.
Nurul Huda Mosque was founded
in the 18th century in Meulaboh along with
the development of city when Meulaboh was administration building, economy and religion.
The mosque was made from wood with the construction of Ulee Balang Kaway XVI firstly.
The society and traders live around the mosque in village (It has been part of
the city now) where Teuku Umar born.
The construction of mosque was built
which was made from wood since Tjik Teuku Ali as Ulee Balang in Meulaboh who
provided area and built community around the mosque in the center of
Hulubalangan Ujong with the market as the center of Gembe Kehulubalangan which
was trade with the office that located around distric area, then it will be Telkom area nextly.
In
1990, the mosque was made from wood, the Tameh was semi-permanent or wood that
has given to Ujong Kalak mosque. There was bar in wudhu place at mosque where
the terrace was as swimming pool.
In
1938, the mosque was expanded by T. Tjuk Ali Akbar with Saleh as stonemason
from Ujong, after independence, it was made permanent in which the
role of Regent and David Dariyah Sahim were important.
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December,
26 2004, Meulaboh was destroyed by Tsunami. Nurul Huda mosque was damaged, the
walls sloping north and water for the first wave that happened at 08.30 a.m. which
attained 2/3 of iron window and then, the second wave that occurred at 09.30 a.m.
Most people were safe in this mosque, because they relied on it as the escape
place for them during the disaster.
Nurul
Huda mosque’s complex has many buildings, consist of Madrasah and Tsanawiyah
and STAI school of West Aceh, it belongs government and library. At the time of
Tsunami, Nurul Huda mosque’s foundation signed MoU with LSM from Islamic Relief
from England to built improvement the mosque with the calculation more one billion
rupiah, when the government signed it, there was witness of Gupta as Head of
hero, then God bless the mosque, so it can use perfectly. However, this mosque has been
cleaned after Tsunami by marine.
Previously,
it has built the mosque that located in village Seuneubok which was the
construction began when the Regent, Drs. Malik Ridwan. The building of the
mosque was able to use when Friday prayers in 2001, that’s why Nurul Huda
mosque was regency mosque. However, the status of Nurul Huda mosque changed as
subdistrict of Johan Pahlawan in 2001.
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