Calling all designers!

as posted in our FB page, we are looking for suggestions of how our logo should be. if you have a creative flair, we welcome you to come up with a logo design(s) which we'll put up for voting. read more at http://www.facebook.com/notes/sgmasjid/logo-design/107095279320850.

hope to see your designs/suggestions!!!

btw, we're having our next round of photoshoot on this coming saturday, 3 April 2010. so look forward to more photos of our beautiful masjids in sunny island Singapore!

In the news...

those of you who listened or read the news would already have known about this. for those who did not... there are plans to build new masjids in Punggol, Jurong West and Woodlands. here's the write up taken from Straits Times Interactive (11 mar 2010):

"TWO new mosques will rise in Woodlands and Jurong West where the Muslim population has grown significantly.

These will be built on land the Government will reserve, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim announced this in Parliament on Thursday.

Both housing estates have one mosque each but with their expanded population in the past 20 years, the situation is especially acute during Friday prayers. That's when Muslim workers from the nearby industrial estates and tertiary institutions crowd the mosques.

Said Dr Yaacob, who is Minister for the Environment and Water Resources: 'There are no other mosques nearby to cope with the spill-over demand. Even after upgrading the existing mosques to increase capacity, there would still be a shortage of space.'

Dr Yaacob did not disclose when the two new mosques will be ready or the site where they will be built.

Also in the pipeline is a new mosque in Punggol which will be built in 2013."

3rd XPDC

we managed to take photos of 5 masjids for the third expedition. here they are:

1. Al Firdaus... located at Jalan Ibadat (that's near keat hong camp. p.s. the name of the road is really apt, don't you think?) is a small, cosy masjid. we had a chat with Ustaz Fadlon and he told us a little of the masjid's background. he even showed us pictures of the masjid before it was refurbished (it was made of wooden planks). it was really cool! for a masjid that seems to be far from housing estates, we saw quite a good number of people sending their children for madrasah classes there.

2. Masjid Pusara Aman... located at Lim Chu Kang Road, Muslim Cemetery. it has a nice landscape garden and a pond with fishes and terrapins. there's a small cart with some food in plastic containers. i assume they're for sale but there wasn't anyone manning it.

3. Assyakirin... located at Yung An Road was a buzz with activities. it has a lift, library and islamic civilization corner. really interesting stuffz! i love the way they utilized space to cater the their kindergarten students. they made their own snakes&ladders board game (big enough for a child to become the 'counters') out of the floor tiles. ;D

4. Al Mukminin... located at Jurong East St 21 has a rather unique architecture. it has kind of a rooftop playground and an air-con student study centre. it also has a reading area for jemaah. when we were there, they were having a blood donation drive. cool eh?

5. Masjid Hasanah... located at Teban Gardens Road has a rather tall minaret (compared to other masjids we've been to so far). my 2nd cuzin loves the narrow 'corridors' in the masjid. there's also a poster on one of the pillars that caught our eyes. printed in 2001 was a map of Singapore with all the masjids and their locations. i wonder if they have an updated map.