For 300 years the Abu Stait
Mosque has been Basuna’s main mosque. It was built and rebuilt a
couple of times. The latest building was completed 70 years ago, on the very
same plot in the center of the village, adjacent to the village’s graveyard
serving as the main Friday Mosque and the only funerary mosque in the entire
village. A flash-flood and a soil subsidence caused by the construction of a
neighboring building, inflicted considerable structural damage rendering the
mosque unsafe, and so it had to be demolished.

The main concept is the mosque as the
“House of God”. A physical space, a House for the One who is beyond space and
time, which are nothing but His own creatures. “No human vision can encompass
Him, whereas He encompasses all human vision: for He alone is unfathomable,
all-aware.” [Qur’an 6:103] “[…] there is nothing like unto Him, and He alone is
all-hearing, all-seeing” [Qur’an 42:11]

This design is intended to look into the
architectural expression of the connection between the physical and the
metaphysical, the created and the Creator.

The House of God houses His will, which
is known to us through His books. The Revealed ‘Written’ Book Kitab Allah al-Massttur
(Qur’an and Hadith) and the Created ‘Sensed’ Book, Kitab Allah al- Mandhur,
the Cosmos. The Revealed book shows us His will through a prescribed world view
and prescribed worship, while the Cosmos shows us His will through natural
order and scientific laws

which govern physical existence.