[1] This two-storey mosque in Bulusaraung street uses about 80 percent of building materials from local raw materials, and has two minarets as high as 66.66 meters, and other adjacent facilities such as library and the office of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) South Sulawesi chapter.

It was built on Exelsior Makassar soccer field with an area of 13,912 square meters, granted for the construction of the mosque.

The earliest form of the building was designed by an architect Muhammad Soebardjo after winning a contest held by the mosque construction committee, and built on May 25, 1949.

The mosque is regarded as a pride of Makassar and became the first venue for Musabaqah Tilawatil Quran (MTQ) festival, a Qur'an recitation contest, in the year 1955.

However, such concerns were allayed along with the development and progress of the renovations since the groundbreaking by then governor of South Sulawesi Zainal Basri Palaguna on October 9, 1999.