Baiturrahman Great Mosque
Baiturrahman Great Mosque is a mosque of Sultanate of Aceh built by Sultan Iskandar Muda Mahkota Alam in 1022 H / 1612 AD Beautiful and magnificent buildings similar to the Taj Mahal in India is located right in the heart of Banda Aceh City and became the center of all activities in Aceh Darussalam.
When the Kingdom of the Netherlands attacked the Sultanate of Aceh on the second Dutch army aggression on Shafar Moon 1290 Hijri / 10 April 1873 AD, Baiturrahman Great Mosque was burned. Then, in 1877 the Dutch rebuilt the Great Mosque of Baiturrahman to attract attention and dampen the anger of Aceh Nation. At that time the Sultanate of Aceh was still under the rule of Sultan Muhammad Daud Syah Johan Sovereign who was the last Sultan of Aceh.
As a historic place that has high artistic value, the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque becomes a religious tourism object that is able to make every tourist who come chuckle awe at the history and beauty of architecture, where Baiturrahman Great Mosque is one of the most beautiful mosque in Indonesia that has stunning architecture, carving an attractive, spacious courtyard with a Turkish-Ottoman Ottoman Turkish bath pool and will be very cool when inside this mosque.
During the Sultanate of Aceh Darussalam, in addition to the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, Baiturrahman Great Mosque is also one of the learning centers of Islam visited by people who want to learn Islam from all over the world.
On 26 March 1873 the Kingdom of the Netherlands declared war to the Sultanate of Aceh, they began to fire cannon fire into the mainland of Aceh from the warship Citadel Van Antwerpen. On April 5, 1873, the Dutch landed at Pante Ceureumen under the leadership of Johan Harmen Rudolf Köhler, and immediately mastered the Great Mosque of Baiturrahman. Köhler then carried 3,198 soldiers. A total of 168 of them were officers. But this first battle was won by the Sultanate of Aceh, where in the incident the death of General Johan Harmen Rudolf Köhler who was the great Dutch general as a shot by a shotgun by a warrior soldier of the Sultanate of Aceh who then perpetuated his shot on a small monument under the Tree Kelumpang which is near the entrance north of the Baiturrahman Great Mosque.
As the headquarters of the war and the citadel of the people of Aceh, At that time, the Baiturrahman Great Mosque was used as a place for the whole army of war Sultanate of Aceh gathered to develop war strategy and tactics. History notes that Aceh's national heroes such as Teuku Umar and Cut Nyak Dhien participated in taking part in maintaining the Baiturrahman Great Mosque.