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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 53-261
Full Name: Adi Irfan Che-Ani
Position: Senior
Lecturer
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, UKM
Country: MALAYSIA
Tel: +60192033551
Tel prefix: +6
Fax: +60389216841
E-mail address: adiirfan@gmail.com
Other E-mails: adiirfan@vlsi.eng.ukm.my
Title of the Paper: Key Conservation Principles of Old Traditional Mosque in Malaysia
Authors as they appear in the Paper: S. Johar, A.I. Che-Ani, N.M. Tawil, M.M. Tahir, N.A.G. Abdullah, A.G. Ahmad
Email addresses of all the authors: suhana1102@yahoo.com, adiirfan@gmail.com, nmtawil@gmail.com, designaar@gmail.com, akmal.goh@gmail.comnmtawil@gmail.com, aghafar@usm.my
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This paper reviews the conservation activities, particularly on traditional old mosque in Malaysia. It comprise the definition, concept and importance of conservation in general, the present of conservation activities on historic buildings and mosque in Malaysia, and the approaches used for conserving to preserve Muslim's house of worship. The finding of this paper highlights the four key conservation principles namely minimal intervention, conducting scientific research and laboratories testing, documentation of conservation work and applying effective methods and techniques for conservation. Meanwhile for conservation program, the seven approaches are preservation, reproduction, restoration, maintenance, redevelopment, rehabilitation and consolidation. Several approaches are normally adopted for one building conservation project. What most important is the justification in adopting the approaches so that it comply to one of the key conservation principle, namely !
minimal intervention.
Keywords: Architectural heritage, Building conservation, Building maintenance, Building repair, Building survey, Cultural significance, Historic building, Malaysia, Place of worship, Traditional mosque
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