DDHK. ORG - Mosque Chai Wan, Hong Kong, is not just a place of worship prayer. But also used as a madrasah place to study the Koran Al-Quran for children.
If in Indonesia there are many multifunctional mosques which apart from worship activities are also used for teaching and learning activities, so is in Hong Kong.
Chai Wan Mosque is a mosque that is known to have a madrasa for children who want to study Al-Quran. Al-Quran taught to children in madrasas after school hours every day.
The Chai Wan Mosque is famous for its beautiful and cool environment because it is near the mountains and surrounded by lots of trees.
This mosque is in a lush greenery area with a serene and peaceful environment.
After the renovation, the Chai Wan Mosque now has three luxurious halls built with white marble. The main hall of the mosque is mainly devoted to these three prayer rooms. Outside the prayer hall is an open space suitable for small religious gatherings.
Outside the mosque building there is also an open room for holding events.
Although the Chai Wan Mosque is not located in the heart of the Chai Wan district, it is still within walking distance from the Chai Wan MTR station.
This mosque is located on Cape Collinson Road, Tai Tam Gap, Chai Wan and to get there you can take the MTR and get off at Chai Wan station. The mosque is accessible by walking Southwest from MTR Chai Wan station.
History of the Chai Wan Mosque
The Chai Wan Mosque is the 5th mosque in Hong Kong which was built in 1963. At first this mosque was used to take care of funerals and prayers for the bodies until it eventually developed into what it is today because many Muslims began to live around the mosque.
Reporting from Oranghongkong.com, in the 1950s, the Hong Kong government wanted to develop the Ho Man Tin area, so in 1956 the Hong Kong Urban Services Department (Urban Services Department) announced it would take back the Muslim burial ground in Ho Man Tin and the small mosque located there .
As a replacement, the Hong Kong government in 1963 built a Chai Wan Mosque and a Muslim cemetery in the area of Cape Collinson, Chai Wan which was designed by a government architect named AM Wahab.
In the same year the Ho Man Tin Muslim cemetery was also demolished and the small mosque was also demolished in 1967. The bodies that were originally buried at the Ho Man Tin Muslim cemetery were also moved to the Muslim cemetery in Happy Valley and this Muslim cemetery in Chai Wan.
The mosque opened on August 4, 1963. Reporting from islamictrusthk-org, to compensate for the reopening of the cemetery and small mosque at Ho Man Tin on the Kowloon Peninsula in 1963, the Government provided land for a cemetery at Cape Collinson, Chai Wan.
The government also built a small mosque at Cape Collinson, Chai Wan which was opened on 4 August 1963 and mainly used for Janazah prayers.
Initially there were no congregational prayers, especially since it was a remote area and no Muslims lived there except for the caretaker. As more and more Muslim families settled in Chai Wan, they started praying at the Chai Wan Mosque.
The Incorporated Trustees of Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong also renovated the entire building in 2005 and air conditioning has been installed in the main prayer room.
On May 17, 2010, the Antiquities Advisory Board and the Office of Monuments designated the mosque as a Grade III historical building. [DDHK News]
