Optimizing Mosque Facilities: Meeting the Spiritual Intelligence Needs of Contemporary Community
Rohimah Khoiriyah Harahap1, Rahinah Ibrahim2
- Universiti Teknologi MARA
- Universiti Putra Malaysia
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE 2024), edited by Ali GhaffarianHoseini, Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini, Farzad Rahimian and Mahesh Babu Purushothaman. Springer Nature, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, volume 591, 2025, pages 1254 to 1263. DOI 10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_120.
Abstract
This paper aims to establish the spiritual intelligence needs of the contemporary community to optimize mosque facilities. Previous studies found a generational gap in utilizing mosque facilities within communities which results in the mosque’s inability to accommodate the spiritual needs of all community members. This research embarked on a study on how mosque managers could evaluate mosque facilities to provide suitable programs to fulfill the current needs of the community. A case study research was conducted on nine district mosques in Selangor, Malaysia. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with mosque managers and then analyzed using content analysis with 67% acceptance criteria. Results identified two factors relevant to establishing spiritual intelligence needs which are human factor comprising physical needs, social needs, and spiritual intelligence needs; and user factor which refers to contemporary community. The findings led to the development of the proposed Contemporary Community Need framework for community mosques. This framework will be integrated into a proposed automated evaluation system for facility optimization to enable mosque managers to offer suitable programs that meet the spiritual intelligence needs of their community.
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Session
Presented in Track J, Saturday 9 November 2024, 11:00 to 13:00, room WA 224 B, Auckland University of Technology. Session chair Dr Eziaku Rasheed.
How to Cite
Harahap, R. K., & Ibrahim, R. (2025). Optimizing Mosque Facilities: Meeting the Spiritual Intelligence Needs of Contemporary Community. In A. GhaffarianHoseini, A. GhaffarianHoseini, F. Rahimian, & M. B. Purushothaman (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE 2024) (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 591, pp. 1254–1263). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_120
About the Conference
Presented at SASBE 2024, the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, held in Auckland from 7 to 9 November 2024 and chaired by Professors Ali and Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini, founders of GDI Academy. The version of record is published by Springer Nature; this page is the conference archive record kept by GDI Academy.