The Banjarmasin Mosque (Arabic: مسجد بنجرماسين الجامع) or better known as the Sungai Jingah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد نهر جينغاه) is a historic mosque located in Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. This mosque was built in 1777 and has Middle Eastern architecture with a combination of Banjarese and Dutch East Indies architecture.
This mosque has a unique history before the building was founded. In ancient times, the city of Banjarmasin did not have a large mosque. This causes the mosque to not be able to accommodate much capacity. So that local people find it difficult to carry out worship activities.
Therefore, the Dutch took the initiative to take the opportunity by donating their tax revenues to build the mosque. Because at that time the results of tax collection from the people of Banjarmasin were very abundant. However, the people of Banjarmasin rejected it outright, because the local people really didn't like the Dutch colonial government at that time.
Banjarmasin Jami Mosque around 1870, which is still on the banks of the Martapura River.
Not only that, the people of Banjarmasin who embraced Islam strongly forbade the intention of giving from the Dutch colonial government, let alone building it. In solving this problem, the Banjar people worked together to build the Banjarmasin Jami Mosque. Both men, women, young and old work together to raise funds.
Some of them donated gold jewelry, agricultural products and even land. So it doesn't take long to collect the funds. After that, this mosque stood with unique and magnificent architecture on two hectares of land. From the past until now, this mosque has always been used as a place of worship and social activities