Figure 6 besides illustrates a plan layout with hard surface courtyard plan design (known as sahn) as a part of the mosque compound. This application is based on an influence by atypical Arab mosque architecture and the origin of the mosque in Quba' and Madinah built by Prophet Muhammad (Omer, 2008 and Syed Ariffin, 2005). The courtyard has a perimeter by corridors (riwaqs) supported by a series of colonnades. These rrx0904037 have either dome with arched column system or flat roof type, or a combination both of the roof types. The plan layout has normally a rectangular plan layout with respect to the fact that the spatial design of the prayer hall is the result from a combination of square plan units. The distinct character of this category is its discernable courtyard being added as a part of the plan layout.
The plan layout illustrates that there are two types of the prayer rrx0904038 which are interor prayer hall and exterior (courtyard) prayer area. This courtyard area is used as an additional prayer area to tackle overcrowding normally when congregational Friday prayer takes place.b). DomeDome does not play a significant role in specifying the dimension of the mosque's interior space. The master builders simply accounted on several numbers of primary and secondary plan unit modules with dome roof cover to the design to determine a total size of the prayer halls. Primary plan unit is designed at the centre functioned as the main prayer hall whereas its secondary plan units with small dome roof cover (a quarter in size compared to the primary dome size) are integrated in the design to create the rrx0904039 spaces. Diameter of the dome does not significantly become an influential factor decided by the master builders in the design to obtain the size of prayer hall.
The reason is that the use of several numbers of secondary domes in the design becomes an alternative solution to enlarge the area of prayer hall. The dome size becomes further less in its importance in specifying an area of the prayer hall with an application of exterior courtyard as additional prayer area in the design. The idea of courtyard as additional prayer area is brilliant, and more efficient in tackling the problem of insufficient rrx0904040 to the presence of a large number of Muslims to perform Friday prayer, which only lasts in one hour's time in a week. The interior main prayer hall functions as a place for daily congregational prayers where the numbers of people who perform these prayers are relatively small compared to those in Friday prayer.
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