Had an opportunity today to perform Maghrib prayers at the old Kuching Mosque in market street. To me this is always a place that we frequented every Friday during our childhood and even as a sanctuary of sorts for us then, doing our revisions in preparation for the SC(now called SPM) exams.
Indeed has a fond memory of that place.
A signboard attracts me as i walked towards the mosque today..... it said that a mosque was established earlier on this site by Datuk Patinggi Ali in 1867. It excites me a bit because i was made to understand that our ancestry goes way back to that famous Malay leader,maybe a myth but i just don't bother to find more facts.
An old wooden mosque i still remembered was there then before it was demolished with a detonator. If i were to recall this must have happened in late 60's for a vivid memory of all awaiting in anticipation for that big bang sound thus telling us all that the mosque would now be only in a demolished heap.
The mosque still retain its tranquility and as i looked around me,i can see a 17 year old me years ago riding a bike to that place , met with good friends as we spend time praying at the accorded times and "study" in the resource room upstairs....
hm mm we all have moved on since then but the mosque still to me is a great sanctuary of sorts and i will hope that the authorities will still retain its surrounding area as a historical heritage and not "pasted' the vicinity with shopping plaza or a parking mall.
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