MASJID: Bentuk Manifestasi Seni dan Kebudayaan

Abstract

Cultural  value can determine the characteristics of cultural environment in which those values believed. Hence, it is colored by the act of the society and the product of the culture. In this sense, human  beings as the main actor of that existing culture. One of the visible products of the culture is its art (architecture) as the proof that best  describes the situation  of the culture. The architecture also influences the ups and downs of a civilization, and it is more meaningful creating the combination between human culture and the human’s obedience to the God which shows harmonious relationship among human, environment, and the creator. It, then, will emerge as an Islamic new civilization, and will bring the goodness for human  beings. This paper describes a mosque as not only the symbol of syi’ar Islam for praying and i’tikaf,  but something that has wider role. It is the creation of Islamic cultural value.  It means that the mosque was born from the knowledge that is inspired from spiritual values, therefore, it reminds and guides human  to come back to the God.