Places of Interest in Jogja

Voyage to Kotagede will not be complete if not a visit to the mosque Kotagede, building places of worship awakened the oldest in Yogyakarta. The building is a place that is often passed only when tourists want to complex burial king of Mataram, the enchantment of the building not less interesting. Of course, many other stories that are on every tool at the mosque that stood around the year 1640-an is.
Before entering the mosque complex, a tree will be found later that perhaps he had hundreds of years. Trees that grow in a location that is now used for parking. Because the old age, local residents it "Wringin older" and that they bring blessings. The desire a person, according to the story, will be fulfilled, would be imprisoned if the tree is to get two pieces fall leaves, one prone and one obstructed.
Walking near to the mosque complex, will be a gate in the form of paduraksa. Exactly at the front gate, you will find a wall-shaped letter L. On the walls of the pictures terpahat some of which is a symbol of the kingdom. Paduraksa form of a wall and L is a manifestation of tolerance Sultan Agung on the citizens who took to build the mosque that still embrace Hinduism and Buddhism.
Entering the mosque page, you will find an inscription that green. Inscription has high 3 meters is a sign that Paku Buwono never renovate the mosque. The base of the inscription shaped square and at the peak there is the crown symbol Kasunanan Surakarta. A clock placed on the south side of the inscription as a reference for the time praying.
The existence of the inscriptions prove that the mosque Kotagede experienced two stages of development. The first phase of which was built in the time of Sultan Agung is the only building the core of the size of a small mosque. Because of the small, the mosque that were previously called langgar. The second building was built by the king Kasunanan Surakarta, Paku Buwono X. Differences in the mosque built by Sultan Agung and Paku Buwono X on the poles. Part of Sultan Agung built wooden poles while a built Paku Buwono with iron poles.
Building the mosque is a core building Java-shaped limasan. Characteristics can be seen on the roof of a pyramid-shaped room and the two divided, and that is the core platform.
A trench around the mosque will be found before entering the building core of the mosque. Drainage is in the past used as a drainage channel after the water used wudlu mosque in the north. Now, local residents improve the trench with installing porcelain at the bottom trench and use it as a place to keep the fish. To facilitate citizens who want to worship, created a small bridge made of wood, which arranged a row.
At the core outside the mosque is bedug old shop with kentongan. Bedug the age old with not less
his mosque is a gift from someone named Mrs Pringgit that comes from the village Dondong, in the region Kulon Progo. Bedug on the services provided, the descendants of Mrs Pringgit be given the right to occupy the area around the mosque, which was then named Dondongan. Meanwhile bedug develop, up to now still is a marker of time praying.
A platform to preach, made of beautiful carved wood that can be found in parts of the mosque, where the priest led the prayer. Podium is also a provision. When the Sultan Agung OF HAJJ, he has to look in Palembang one of the duke in the place. As of recognition, duke of Palembang provide the platform. Platform is now rarely used because that is not kept deliberately damaged. As a replacement for the podium, local residents use a small platform for the sake of worship daily.
Walked around the page mosque, the difference will be found in the walls of the mosque building. The left wall of bricks that greater size, the color of the red, and there are stones such as marble surface, which is written in Java characters. Meanwhile, another wall has a brick-colored slightly younger, smaller size, and plain. Wall left in the mosque that was built during the Sultan Agung, while another wall is the result of the renovation Paku Buwono X. Wall built during the Sultan Agung sugar palm juice that can harden so strong.
Mosque that he had hundreds of years up to now it still looks alive. Local people still use it as a place to conduct religious activities. When the time came when praying, will see tens of citizens engage worship. Outside prayer time, many residents who use the mosque for a place to communicate, learn the Koran, and others.