Cotabato City - Grand Mosque

Cotabato City, officially the City of Cotabato (Malay: Kota Batu meaning "Fortress of Stone", Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Cotabato, Filipino: Lungsod ng Kutabato), is one of the cities of the Philippines located in Mindanao. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 271,786.^[2]
Cotabato City is the regional center of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) but the city is administratively part of the SOCCSKSARGEN region, which is composed of provinces of South Cotabato, North Cotabato (Cotabato Province), Sultan Kudarat, and Saranggani, as well as the highly urbanized city of General Santos. For geographical purposes, it is grouped with Maguindanao, or for statistical reasons sometimes grouped with the Cotabato province,^[3] and does not belong to the ARMM. Cotabato City is distinct from and should not be confused with the province of Cotabato.

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As the new attraction within the City, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Masjid or Grand Mosque is the most stunning Mosque in the Philippines.

The Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Masjid, also known as the Grand Mosque of Cotabato, is the largest mosque in the Philippines. The mosque is located in Barangay Kalanganan in Cotabato City, and was funded by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam at a reported cost of US$48 million.^[2] It is the biggest mosque in the Philippines.
The Sultan Of Brunei, funded the construction of this mosque with his own personal money to help the emerging Muslim population in the Southern Philippines.

 

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