SINCRETIC & SEMIOTIC THE ANCIENT INDONESIAN MOSQUE & TOMBHOUSE (Case study : SENDANG DUWUR-EAST JAVA)

Wiranto Wiranto (Architecture Department, Diponegoro University, Semarang)

DIMENSI: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment
Vol. 30 No. 2 (2002): DECEMBER 2002

Mosque is a place for worship, spirit, contemplation, but above all, Mosque is “a gate way“. Sendang Duwur Mosque and Tombhouse is an Islamic antiquity as the product of syncretism process between traditional Javanese architecture – Hindunese/Budhanese – foreign Islamic which born early Mosque in Java. The semiotic and syncretic of Indonesian Mosque and Tombhouse also integrated some principles of the Javanese cosmology blend with the concept of Islamic Architecture, which resulted a symthesis of both traditional and new idea. It manifested in the type of ancient Mosque and tombhouse Sendang Duwur,which is original types ,specific with identity.