BENGKULU - Regional Office (Kanwil) of the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) has measured the Qibla direction of 621 mosques and prayer rooms in the Bengkulu City area. Measurements are carried out in stages.
"We have recorded and also measured the direction of Qibla using special tools, even data has been entered, there are as many as 621 mosque buildings and prayer rooms in this city. We have included this data in the Mosque Information System (Simas) application," said the Head of the Islamic Community Guidance Division (Bimas) of the Bengkulu City Ministry of Religion, Rolly Irawan in Bengkulu, Thursday, April 24, confiscated by Antara.
He said that the Qibla direction measurement process was in accordance with standard operational procedures (SOP) and the mosque or prayer room carried out with a measurement of 92 percent.
For eight percent of mosques or prayer rooms whose Qibla directions have not been measured, he said, Bengkulu City Ministry of Religion officers are looking for the coordinates of the direction they should be.
Therefore, he appealed to mosque administrators and prayer rooms in Bengkulu City to submit an application for Qibla measurements.
"For mosques or prayer rooms that have been measured, we will provide a certificate as proof," said Rolly.
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Rolly explained that the measurement of the Qibla direction was part of the Bengkulu City Ministry of Religion's efforts to provide certainty of the right Qibla direction for Muslims in carrying out prayers.
The data collected, he said, would be an accurate and reliable database needed by policymakers in the regions.
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