Approval to build the mosque was granted in 1934 and the contract was signed with TAKENAKA CORPORATION. The main body of the mosque, made of reinforced concrete, had three storeys above ground and one below, and was designed by Jan-Josef ŠVAGR. The 11 initial drawings stored at TAKENAKA CORPORATION show some differences from the actual dome, such as the absence of a large dome, which is thought to have been changed or added according to ŠVAGR’s ideas. The mosque has a strong basement and architectural structure, which survived the Kôbe Air Raid in 1945, and was not destroyed fifty years later by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995.
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