About Al-Makmur Mosque
Al-Makmur Mosque is a school, located at Jakarta, Indonesia
Masjid Jami' Al-Makmur Cikini is located on Jalan Raden Saleh Raya in Cikini, Central Jakarta, and is one of the oldest mosques in the locality. It was formerly known as Tjikini Mosque (Indonesian: 'Masjid Tjikini').Early historyThe mosque stands on what was the estate of Raden Saleh, the famous late nineteenth-century Romantic painter. Oral tradition has it that Raden Saleh himself allowed local Muslims to build a prayer house on his estate, sometime in 1850. In 1897, the late artist's wife sold the estate to the Alatas family, a prominent Peranakan Arab clan of colonial landlords and officials.Legal LimboSome thirty years later, Sayyid Ismail bin Sayyid Abdoellah bin Alwi Alatas sold part of the estate to Koningin Emma Stichting, a foundation that would later build and manage Cikini Hospital (Indonesian: 'Rumah Sakit Cikini'). The old mosque was excluded from the transaction due to an ongoing ownership dispute between the Sayyid and the mosque. Around this time, the simple old structure was moved to the banks of the Ciliwung to enable worshippers to undertake wudu in the river.After Sayyid Ismail's victory in the courts, the land on which the mosque stood was sold to Koningin Emma Stichting in 1923. A year later, the hospital board officially requested the mosque board to move the house of worship further away from its present site.Staying powerThe mosque authorities, however, refused since they consider the land a legacy, or waqf, left to the community by Raden Saleh.
