SAM POO KONG TEMPLE 

SEMARANG - CENTRAL JAVA

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Building Stone temple Sam Po Kong is a petilasan, the former site of the first landing of a stopover and Moslem Chinese admiral named Zheng He / Cheng Ho. Located in the area Simongan, southwest of Semarang. Signs that show as former petilasan characterized by the discovery of writing keislamanan reads "silence let us listen to the recitation of the Qur'an with".

Building Stone called because its shape is a huge Batu Caves are situated on a rock., The Indonesian Chinese descent think it is a temple building - given shape to look like a china architecture temple. Now the place is used as a memorial and a place of worship or worship as well as a place for pilgrimage. For this purpose, in the cave was placed a stone altar and statues of Sam Po Tay Djien. Though admiral cheng ho is a Muslim, but by god they are considered. It can dimeklumi remember Confucianism or Tau considers people who have died can provide relief to them.

According to the story, Admiral Zheng He sailed through the Java Sea there is a sick crew, he ordered the anchor. He then docked to the northern coast of Semarang and establish a mosque on the waterfront which has now been turned into temples. The building now has been at the center of the city of Semarang on the north coast of Java always causes the mangalami silting caused the sedimentation so that the mainland will gradually growing wider towards the north.

That said, after Zheng He left the scene because he had to continue his voyage, many crew members who lived in the village Simongan and mating with the locals. They bersawah and farming that place. Zheng He gives lessons to cultivate and spread the teachings of Islam.

LAWANG SEWU - SEMARANG

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Lawang Sewu is a building in Semarang, Central Java, which is the office of the Nederlands-Indische Maatschappij or NIS Spoorweg. Built in 1904 and completed in 1907. Located at the roundabout Tugu Muda formerly called Wilhelminaplein.

Local people call it Lawang Sewu (Thousand Doors) is because the building has a door that very much. In fact, there is no door to a thousand. This building has many windows high and wide, so people often take it as a door (mace).

Ancient buildings and magnificent two-story is used as an office after independence Djawatan Repoeblik Indonesian Railways (DKARI) or now PT Kereta Api Indonesia. Additionally once an Office of National Infrastructures Regional Military Command (military command IV / Diponegoro) Regional Office (Regional Office) Ministry of Transportation Central Java. In the era of the building has its own history that is when the battle took place five days of events in Semarang (14 October to 19 October 1945). The old building became the location of a great battle between youth Amka or the Young Railway against Kempetai and Kidobutai, Japan. Therefore Semarang City Government with Mayor Decree Number. 650/50/1992, enter Lawang Sewu as one of 102 ancient or historic buildings in the city of Semarang that should be protected.

Currently the old building has undergone a phase of conservation and revitalization undertaken by the Conservation Unit of objects and historic buildings PT Kereta Api Persero

Lawang Sewu Building History : Lawang Sewu 1901 draft scheme

Lawang Sewu is one of the historic building that was built by the Dutch colonial administration, on February 27, 1904. The building was originally established for use as Het Indische Hoofdkantoor van de Nederlansch Spoorweg Maatscappij (NIS) or the Railway Headquarters Company Private NIS. Office administration activities previously carried out at Station Samarang NIS NIS. However, the growth of the railway network quite rapidly, and need for increasing the number of technical and administrative personnel who are not a little due to increased activity office. One result of the manager's office in Station NIS Samarang become no longer sufficient. NIS also rented several buildings owned by an individual as an interim solution. However, it is deemed inefficient. Not to mention the location where the NIS Samarang station located in the swamps to matters of sanitation and health is an important consideration. Then it was decided to build administrative offices at the new location. The choice fell to land at that time was in the suburbs adjacent to the residence of the Resident. It's on the tip Bodjongweg Semarang (now Jalan Youth), at the meeting point and Samarang naar Bodjongweg Kendalweg (highway to Kendal). NIS entrust the design of the NIS headquarters building in Semarang to Prof.. Jacob F. Klinkhamer (TH Delft) and B.J. Ouendag, an architect who lives in Amsterdam. The whole design process is done in the Netherlands, then the pictures were taken to the city of Semarang. Notice of Lawang Sewu written blueprint that site plan and building plans have been drawn in Amsterdam in 1903. Similarly, the completeness of his images were made and signed in Amsterdam in 1903.