No nails
Wooden pegs and joints.
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A historic timber mosque in Sungai Penuh, the town of the Kerinci valley, which the neighbourhood began building together on 1 June 1874 and completed step by step into the early twentieth century. Its marvel is that the whole timber frame was joined with wooden pegs and joints without a single nail, and it has stood firm for about a century and a half. The mosque is crowned by a three-tiered pyramid roof in the style of the archipelago's old mosques, carried inside on dozens of timber pillars decorated with fine painted carving of local floral and geometric motifs, with a massive central pillar and a carved pulpit. The roof covering was later replaced with metal. The mosque serves daily prayers; entry is free, and visitors are welcome outside prayer times in modest dress. It is the town's most beautiful monument, so visit on your way to nearby Lake Kerinci or Bukit Kayangan.
Wooden pegs and joints.
Fine painted motifs.
The old mosque style.
Pondok Tinggi, central Sungai Penuh, Kerinci
It was built with a traditional joinery system in which posts and beams are fixed with wooden pegs, a flexible system that withstands the earthquakes common in the Kerinci valley.