Terengganu Kite 4 - Crystal Mosque

Kesempatan di KT, kami tidak melepaskan peluang ke Pulau Wan Man mengunjungi Masjid Kristal. Pulau ni pun sebenarnya bukan sebuah pulau tapi kelihatan macam dah ditambak membolehkan kenderaan terus ke kawasan masjid sejauh sebatu sekira-kira bermula dari Muzium Negeri yang terdapat Batu Bersurat.

Memasuki kawasan Pulau Wan Man in terdapat Taman Tamadun Islam seluar 23 hektar di mana beberapa replika monumen-monumen Islam termasuk beberapa masjid seluruh dunia dibina. Saiz replika masjid-masjid ni termasuk Dome of the Rock agak besar which make one wonders whether boleh solat ke tidak dalamnya.

Masjid kristal memang nampak cantik dari luar atau dari jauh bercahaya macam kristal. Tapi sebenarnya yang nampak macam kristal tu adalah tinted glass panels. Lokasi masjid memang strategik betul-betul di hujung tanjung overlooking jambatan dan muara Sungai Terengganu. Yang nampak ada kristal tu mungkin chandelier - tapi itu kat masjid sentul pong ada.. Keseluruhan masjid dan dewan solat sendiri tidak berapa besar mungkin unjuran tidak berapa ramai ahli kariah yang akan bersolat lima waktu di sini tapi dibina cukup sekadar untuk membenarkan hadis nabi berkenaan tanda akhir zaman - masjid yang dibina untuk hiasan.

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Ini catatan sejarah berkenaan asal negeri penyu for your reading pleasure.
There were conflicting versions of how Terengganu got her name. Some associated it to the discovery of an incisor tooth of an unknown origin at a river estuary by a group of hunters from a neighbouring state. Thus they called the place 'Taring Anu' where the tooth was found. Another version, the name Terengganu was derived from a very bright rainbow seen by a group of sea travellers and proclaimed the land to be 'Terang Ganu (Bright Rainbow). Yet another version implies the river of Terenggan as an important trade route between the coastal settlements and those from inland. Trade flourished with the river as the main transportation link. Inland settlements goes to Sungai Terenggan nu (that way to the coastal) rather than to Sungai Terengganu ni (that way to further inland).

Furthermore the name Terengganu was mentioned as Teng-Ya-Nu by a Chinese scholar, Coo-Cu-Fei in his book Ling-Wai-Fai-Ta in 1178AD. Another Chinese historian, Cao-Ju- Kua did not miss Teng-ya-nung when he authored Cu-fan-Cih in 1226AD.

Teng-ya-nung was under the rule of Sri Vijaya kingdom. Ptolemy, a Greek traveller corroborated that the east coast region of the Golden Chersonese (Peninsular Malaya) had Kole and Primula. Both believed to be ports of call for coastal traders. Kole was said to be in Kemaman while Primula was believed to be in Kuala Terengganu. The Inscripted Stone (Batu Bersurat) found by Sayed Hussein Ghulam Al-Bukhari in 1902 at Kuala Berang bore the word Terenkanu inscribed in jawi, an Arabic Romanized version.