Walks around Banda Aceh City

The city of Banda Aceh is one of the cities in Aceh and became the capital of Aceh province, Indonesia. As the center of government, Banda Aceh became the center of economic, political, social and cultural activities. The city of Banda Aceh is also the oldest Islamic city in Southeast Asia, where Banda Aceh is the capital of the Aceh Sultanate.

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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 and 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.

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The Aceh Tsunami Museum is a museum in Banda Aceh designed as a symbolic monument to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster as well as an education center and emergency shelter if the tsunami occurs again.

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Aceh Tsunami Museum was designed by architect from Bandung, West Java, Ridwan Kamil. This museum is a four-storey structure with an area of ​​2500 m² whose curved walls are covered by geometric reliefs. Inside, visitors enter through a narrow and dark passageway between two high water walls to recreate the atmosphere and panic of the tsunami. The museum walls are adorned with pictures of Saman dancing people, a symbolic meaning to Aceh's religious power, discipline, and religious beliefs. From the top, the roof formed a wave of the sea. The floor is basically designed like a traditional Aceh stage house that survived the tsunami.

The building commemorates the victims, whose names are inscribed on the walls of one of the museum's deepest rooms, and the survivors of this disaster.

In addition to its role as a memorial to the dead, the museum is also useful as a refuge for such disasters in the future, including "refugee hills" for visitors if a tsunami occurs again.

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Exhibits at this museum include the electronic simulation of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, as well as photos of victims and stories delivered by survivors.

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Sultan Iskandar Muda (Aceh, Banda Aceh, 1593 or 1590 - Banda Aceh, Aceh, 27 September 1636) was the greatest sultan in the time of the Sultanate of Aceh, ruling from 1607 to 1636. Aceh reached its glory during the reign of Iskandar Muda where its growing power and international reputation are central to trade and learning about Islam. His name is now immortalized at Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport in Aceh.

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Museum Aceh is an ethnographic museum of indigenous tribes that inhabit Aceh.

The Aceh Museum was established during the reign of the Dutch East Indies, whose use was inaugurated by the Aceh Civil and Military Governor General H.N.A. Swart on July 31, 1915. At that time the building is a building of Traditional Houses Aceh (Rumoh Aceh). The building came from the Aceh Pavilion which was placed in the arena of Colonial Exhibition (De Coloniale Tentoonsteling) in Semarang on 13 August - 15 November 1914.

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Taman Putroe Phang is a park of the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam founded by Sultan Iskandar Muda (1607-1636) for his wife Putroe Phang who came from the Kingdom of Pahang. This park was built because the sultan is very loving Princess Pahang and for the empress not lonely when in live sultan run government.

The construction of the park is a request from Putroe Phang, the king's daughter who was brought to Aceh by Sultan Iskandar Muda after the Pahang kingdom was conquered.

Inside this park there is Pinto Khop is a small dome-shaped gate that is the door that connects the garden with the palace. This Khop Pinto is the resting place of Princess Phang, after a tired swim, is not far from Gunongan, where the ladies are washing the hair of the empress. There is also a pool for the empress shampoo and flower bath.

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