The large wooden mosque, together with the royal palace of Kraton Kadriyah, was among the first buildings constructed in the city following the establishment of Pontianak in 1771.

He was the son of al Habib Hussein, a Muslim scholar from Semarang who moved to West Kalimantan in 1733, was received by the Sultan of Matan, Kamaluddin, and then elected to be his Mufti of Religious Matters.

To establish a Muslim Sultanate in Kalimantan, Alkadrie disembarked to the downstream of the river Kapuas together with his envoys of fourteen boats.

The royal administration decided that the kingdom would be led by the brother of Syarif Abdurrahman, named Sharif Kasim.

These main posts numbered six and was created out of belian wood, a type of high-quality hardwood native to the island.

Glass windows provide light into the interior between the lowest and second-lowest tier.