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Kauman the Great Mosque

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Kauman the Great Mosque is located at St.Alun-alun Semarang Barat number 11 on the one hand, while the side is a road Kauman. Kauman Mosque is a series of reforming the history of the development of building a mosque in Semarang. Sema's first mosque was located in an area now mugas founded by Kyai Pandan Arang Ageng. When he moved to the city of Semarang district and established a subordinate part bubakan and established the mosque as a place of worship. Construction of the mosque complex is situated in the square Semarang is a biggest mosque in Hyderabad that finally had immortalized the name of Kyai Duke Surohadimenggola II as the first founder of the Great Mosque Kauman Semarang.



Mandala Bakti Museum

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History
This museum was originally built by A.R. Kuhr E. and Van Leeuwen, circa 1930, the Raad van Justitie or special court for the Europeans who live in Semarang. In 1950, this place is converted by the Indonesian military as an office, and in 1985, has turned into a museum.

As a museum of military struggle, the museum is a good collection of data, history and documentation, and weapons-both traditional and modern weapons and equipment used in the war while maintaining independence, among others: traditional weapons, homemade weapons, modern weapons, heavy weapons , Communication Equipment, Minirawa Paris Madiun, banners Kodam, Wood, Textile, paper, palm leaves, Leather, Ivory, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Brass, Stone, Ceramics, from the glass.

A variety of ancient weapons, especially the soldier who never used IV Diponegoro military command, on display here.

Located on the road Soegiyopranoto no. 1. Mandala Bhakti Museum is located right in front of the Tugu Muda. Museum open Tuesday to Thursday from 08.00 until 18.00, Friday 08.00 hours until 10.30 am, Sunday from 08.00 am to 12.00, Monday, Saturday and holidays closed.




Tawang railway station

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Tawang Station is the station's first surrogate-Indische Spoorweg Nederlandsche Maatschappij (NIS), Pond Sari. Construction of Embankment station Sari marked by groundbreaking ceremony by the Governor-General Mr. Sloet Baron van de Beele, along with the formation of perangkutan rail system on June 16, 1864. N.I.S serve pathway Semarang - Yogya - Solo.
After experiencing the process of development that eventually halting train service line is completed on 10 February 1870. The expansion of trading activities led to Embankment station Sari does not qualify anymore. Then the new station is planned by the architect JP de Bordes a later date is more known by the name Tawang Station. Tawang station was built in May 1914.




Berok Bridge

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Semarang Mberok bridge the past and the present against the background of Art Building Societeit de Harmonie. This bridge is a major bridge across the Kali Semarang, as a liaison old town (east) with a new city (west). berok derived from the Dutch language means jembatanOrang brug Java language difficult to pronounce the Dutch word meaning brug bridge into berug or berok.



0km area in Semarang

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0km Semarang region (zero miles), first building that is left now is the Office of the Governor's office BPKP Semarang in the Dutch East Indies. Calculation of road length in the city of Semarang begins from here. This place is near a large post office in Semarang.




Cake blends old school colonial taste

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In 1912 the mother Liem Gien Nio ("Oma Oen") set up a cake shop in Yogyakarta, which is given the name "Oen" from her husband Tjoen Oen Hok ("Opa Oen"). Oen is the name of Chinese surnames. The word "oen" in Dutch means "moron". In a short time the store is equipped with ice-cream shops and restaurants (1922). Then the branches in Batavia and Malang (1930) opened. Batavia Branch was closed and the bank bought ABN in 1973. Direct building of a new building was destroyed and rebuilt. Toko Oen Malang sold in 1990 and continued by the new owners operated under the name "Oen" illegally.

In 1936 the name "Oen" Opa granted patents by Oen. Toko Oen Semarang was established in 1936 in a building formerly owned by the British and named Grillroom, which was bought by Opa Oen in 1935. Address at No. Bodjong. 52 (now Jalan Pemuda). Then passed on to the 2nd generation Hwa Liem Oen. Then passed on to his children. So now the restaurant is managed by the 3rd generation owner: Jenny Sando Kalalo Megaradjasa same husband.




Lawang Sewu

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Lawang Sewu is a building in Semarang, Central Java, which is the office of the Nederlands-Indische Maatschappij Spoorweg or NIS. Built in 1904 and completed in 1907. Tugu Muda is located at the first roundabout called Wilhelminaplein.
Local people call it Lawang Sewu (Thousand Door). This is because the building has a door that very much. In fact, the doors are not up to a thousand. This building has many windows height and width, so that people often regard it as a door (mace).


Ancient buildings and magnificent two-story after independence was used as the office of the Railway Department of the Indonesian republic (DKARI) or now PT Kereta Api Indonesia. In addition once used as the Office of Infrastructure Agency Regional Military Command (Kodam IV / Diponegoro) Regional Office (Regional Office) Ministry of Transportation Central Java. During the struggle of this building has its own historical record of events during a five-day battle in Hyderabad (October 14 to October 19 1945). This old building became the location of a great battle between youth AMKA or the Young Railway against Kempeitai and Kidobutai, Japan. Therefore the City of Semarang by Decree No. mayor. 650/50/1992, enter Lawang Sewu as one of 102 ancient or historic buildings in the city of Semarang that should be protected.





Blenduk Church

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Blenduk Church  sometimes spelled Blendug Church and is often pronounced as mBlendhug is the oldest Christian Church in Central Java built by the Dutch who lived in that city in 1753, with a hexagonal shape (a square of eight). The church is actually called GPIB Immanuel Church, at Jl. Letjend. Suprapto 32. Large dome, coated bronze, and in it there is a Baroque organ. Architecture in it is based on a Greek cross. The church was renovated in 1894 by W. Westmaas and H.P.A. de Wilde, who added the two towers in front of this church building. Blenduk name is the nickname of the local community which means dome. This church today is still used every Sunday. Around the church there are also a number of other buildings from the Dutch colonial period



Johar Market

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Is a symmetric building with a single facade. Consists of four building blocks held together by 8:00 feet wide alley. The orientation of buildings towards the east. Pasar Johar is a two-storey building just on the edge, while the center of a void. Transverse side of the building consists of six trafe, and has four longitudinal sides trafe. The foundation of stone, the structure of reinforced concrete, with a system of fungus on the columns. 6:00 module meter columns has a rectangular cross-section of eight. Columns like this are called construction fungus (mushroom). The roof of the flat roof made of concrete. In certain parts of the roof, held exaltation as the air holes. The building meets the footprint available, so there is no page or open space. This is in accordance with the principle of Thomas Karsten is space efficient. To the north there is a Market Pasar Johar Yaik Permai built later; east there SCJ (Johar Shoping Center) that was completed in 1994, and the south there is Kali Semarang.





Semarang History

Semarang history begins more or less in the 8th century AD, the coastal area called Pragota (now Bergota) and is part of the ancient Mataram kingdom. The area at that time was in front of the harbor and there are clusters of small islands. Due to the deposition, which until now still ongoing, the cluster is now fused to form the mainland. Lower part of Semarang city known today as such used to be a marine. Port is estimated to be in the Feather Market area now extends into the harbor and Simongan, where the fleet of Admiral Zheng He's leaning in the year 1405 AD In place of landing, Admiral Cheng Ho founded the temple and the mosque which is still visited and called Sam Po Kong temple (Gedung Batu).

At the end of the 15th century AD there is someone stationed by the Kingdom of Demak, known as Prince Made Pandan (Sunan Pandanaran I), to spread the religion of Islam from the hills Pragota. From time to time that the more fertile, fertility from the sidelines that it appeared the tamarind tree charcoal (Javanese: Asem Charcoal), thus providing the title or the name of the area to Semarang.