Volume 7 Issue 27 (March 2022) PP. 121-129 DOI 10/35631/JTHEM.727011 Copyright © GLOBAL ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE (M) SDN BHD - All rights reserved 121 JOURNAL OF TOURISM, HOSPITALITY AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT (JTHEM) www.jthem.com WOMEN FRIENDLY MOSQUE: AN OVERVIEW Nur Farah Atikah Mohd Razif 1* , Norliza Mohd Isa 2 , Raja Nafida Raja Shahminan 3 1 Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia Email: missnfa@gmail.com 2 Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia Email: norlizaisa@utm.my 3 Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia Email: b-nafida@utm.my * Corresponding Author Article Info: Abstract: Article history: Received date: 15.12.2021 Revised date: 13.01.2022 Accepted date: 25.02.2022 Published date: 08.03.2022 To cite this document: Razif, N. F. A. M, Isa, N. M., & Shahminan, R. N. R. (2022). Women Friendly Mosque: An Overview. Journal of Tourism Hospitality and Environment Management, 7 (27), 121-129. DOI: 10.35631/JTHEM.727011. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Mosque is a place where people prostrate to Allah S.W.T and Islamic religion greatness symbol, that stand firm in every corner of the world. The mosque is also a place for muslims gather with no differences in gender, ethnicity and status. In the time of Prophet Muhammad, peace upon him, has raised awareness of the mosque’s role as community builder without ignoring the women. In Malaysia, some mosque designs less emphasize the need for woman comfort and this raises problems towards women while in the mosque. Prayer area, ablution area, toilet and safety which are the main components that are needed to be emphasized in designing a mosque. Nevertheless, there are still a numbers of muslim women voices their frustration towards the facilities provided to them in mosque. Therefore, this research identifies the problems faced by women using the secondary data which is media content analysis. Besides that, field observation which involved some mosques in Johor to identify issues in facilities and design of mosque. From the field observation, it was clearly seen that the mosques’ facilities provided for the women users still do not comply with ‘women-friendly’ mosque. Some suggestions were provided to improve the mosque's design and to act as reference by future researchers, architects and designers in designing a mosque. Keywords: Women, Friendly, Mosque