مسجد Dinas Perumahan Rakyat Dan Kawasan Permukiman Aceh

Serving the offices of the Dinas Perumahan Rakyat dan Kawasan Permukiman of Aceh Province, this musholla provides civil servants, visitors, and passers by with a tranquil corner for the five daily prayers in the historic city of Banda Aceh. The capital of the Aceh Special Region, on the far north western tip of Sumatra, is often described as Serambi Mekah, the Verandah of Mecca, a title earned for its early embrace of Islam in the thirteenth century when the Samudra Pasai sultanate minted the first Islamic coins in South East Asia and sent learned envoys to Cairo, Mecca, and Medina.

Aceh suffered greatly in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, which claimed more than one hundred and sixty thousand souls along the coast. The miraculous survival of the great Baiturrahman Grand Mosque at the centre of the city, its dome standing unscathed amid the devastation, became a symbol of resilient faith and of the hope that God promises in the Qur'an, verily with every difficulty there is ease. The Housing and Settlement Department plays a central role in rebuilding and managing settlements for families displaced by disasters, and the musholla within its offices reminds each worker of the sacred trust held in their hands.

The prayer room itself is modest in scale, fitted into the ground floor of an administrative building with clean tiled floors, woven prayer mats stored in neat shelves, a small mihrab facing the Ka'bah across the Indian Ocean, and a simple loudspeaker that softly carries the adhan through the corridors at each prayer time. A wudu area with cool water sits beside the entrance, and a shoe rack keeps the hall tidy throughout the day.

This page provides daily prayer timings for Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha at the musholla, along with the Banda Aceh address and friendly notes for visitors arriving from the nearby Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, the poignant tsunami museum designed by Ridwan Kamil, or the floating electrical barge carried three kilometres inland by the wave and now preserved as a monument. Qur'an recitation classes for staff run during lunch breaks during Ramadan, and the offices open to share sweet kolak and fried bakwan at sunset. Every visitor to the proud Acehnese capital is warmly invited to slip off their shoes, enter with salaam, and remember in their supplications the martyrs of the great wave whose patient surrender continues to shelter the living souls of this beloved province.