Keraton Yogyakarta

Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat or Kraton Yogyakarta is the official Palace of the Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat Kingdom which is now located in the city of Yogyakarta, special region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Although the Sultanate has officially become part of the Republic of Indonesia in 1950, the building complex of the Palace still serves as a place of residence of the sultan and his household who still run the Sultanate the tradition to this day.

The Palace is now also one of the attractions in the city of Yogyakarta. Part of the palace complex is a museum which houses various collections belonging to the Sultanate, including a variety of granting of European Kings, a replica of the Royal Palace, and heirloom gamelan. In terms of the building, the Palace is one of the examples of the best Java Palace architecture, has a Grand Hall-luxury Grand Hall and the field as well as a spacious Pavilion.

The History Of The Palace

Keraton Yogyakarta was founded by Sultan Hamengku Buwono I several months after the Treaty of Giyanti in 1755. The location of the Royal Palace reportedly is a former pesanggarahan named Garjitawati. This building used to break cortege Kings of Mataram (Kartasura and Surakarta) who will be buried at Imogiri. Another version mentions the location of the Palace is a spring of water, there is Pacethokan, which is in the middle of the forest Beringan. Before occupying the Palace, Sultan Hamengku Buwono I dwell in Pesanggrahan Amber Piece that Kecamatan Limestone now includes the Sleman Regency.

Physically, the Palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta has seven core complex, namely Siti Heightened Ler (Grand Hall), Kamandhungan Ler (North Kamandhungan), Sri Manganti Kedhaton, Kamagangan, the Kamandhungan Kidul (South Kamandhungan), and Siti Heightened Kidul (Grand Hall). Besides Yogyakarta Palace has a variety of cultural heritage both in the form of the ceremony as well as the objects of ancient and historic. On the other hand, the Palace is also an indigenous institution complete with custom of Regent. Therefore it is not surprising if the values the philosophy similarly mythology surrounds the Palace. And to that in 1995 the complex Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat nominated to become one of the UNESCO World Heritage site.

Mosques Gedhe Sultanate

The Mosque complex Gedhe Sultanate (Mosque of the Sultanate) or Great Mosque of Yogyakarta is located in the West of the North square complex. The complex also called the Mosque Gedhe Kauman is surrounded by a high wall. The main entrance of the complex are located at the East side. The architecture of the buildings of the square tajug-shaped stem covered with roofing bertumpang three. To get inside there is the main entrance to the East and North. On the side in the western part there is a three-tiered pulpit is made of wood, the mihrab (the place of the priest leading the worship), and building a cage similar to the so-called maksura. In his time (for security reasons) in the Sultan's service. The mosque's Porch joglo open rectangle. The floor of the mosque's parent made higher than the floor of the mosque and the Foyer the Foyer itself was higher compared with the mosque. At the North-East-South of the porch there is a small pool. In ancient times this pool to wash away people who wanted to enter the mosque.

In front of the mosque there is a page of a particular tree planted. To the North and South page (Northeast and Southeast of the Mosque buildings) there is a rather high which is named Pagongan. Pagongan in the North East of the mosque called Pagongan Ler (Pagongan North) and which are in the Southeast is called with the Pagongan Kidul (South Pagongan). During the ceremony, the Sekaten Pagongan Ler is used to put the gamelan sekati Kangjeng Kyai (KK) Wilaga and Pagongan of the South Dragons for the gamelan sekati KK Thunder honey. Southwest Pagongan of the South there is a door to enter the Mosque complex used in the ceremony Trace Boto Sekaten at a ceremony in Dal. In addition, there is Pengulon, the official residence of Kangjeng Kyai Pengulu North of the mosque and the old cemetery on the West side of the mosque.

General Architecture

In general each of the main complex consists of the page covered with sand from the beach south of the main building, as well as a companion, and is sometimes planted certain trees. Compound one another, separated by a high wall and is associated with the usually stylish Regol Semar Tinandu. Door leaf made of teak wood that thick. Behind or in front of each gate of wall baffle there is usually called Renteng or Baturono. On the screen there is a certain regol ornament.

The palace buildings of more traditional architecture-style look. In some parts of certain visible touch of foreign cultures such as Portuguese, Netherlands, even China. The building of each complex is usually shaped/Jogja Joglo or derivation/derivatives of its construction. Joglo open without a wall called the Ward while the closed walls of the joglo named Gedhong (the building). In addition there are buildings that form the canopy of bamboo and bamboo-roofed called Tratag. On the development of the building roofed colonnaded zinc and iron.

Joglo roof surfaces in the form of a trapezoid. The material is made of shingles, the precarious ground, as well as zinc and are usually either red or gray. The roof is supported by the main pillars called Soko with teachers who are in the middle of the building, as well as other pillars. The pillars of the building is typically dark green or black with yellow ornament, light green, red, and gold as well as the other. For other parts of the building made of wood has a similar color with the color on the mast. In certain buildings (e.g. Manguntur Tangkil) has Mirong, Daughter stilasi ornamentation of the calligraphy of Allah, Muhammad, and Alif Lam Mim Ra, in the middle of the shaft.

For the stone plinth, the Ompak, black combined with golden colored ornaments. The color white dominates a wall dividing walls or building complex. The floor is usually made from white marble or stone tile patterned. The floor was made taller than Sandy page. On a particular building has a main floor that is higher. On a particular building is equipped with a square stone called Selo to the historical place of putting the throne Sultan.

Each building has a class depending on their functions include proximity to Office users. The main classes for example, a building used by the Sultan in the capacity of his Office, have a more complicated ornament detail and beautiful compared to the class below. The lower class buildings then the more modest ornamentation do not even have the ornament at all. In addition to the ornament, class a building can also be seen from the material and shape of the part or the whole of the building itself.