Tombs of the Kings of Mataram kingdom

"(tombs of the kings of Mataram kingdom)"

Sites Dynasty Tomb Kings and the Great Mosque of Islamic Mataram Mataram located only a few hundred meters to the south of Market Kotagede now. On the right road, we will find a large banyan tree in a yard large enough for the size of Kotagede. This is the main gateway into the site. On the left side and right side of this page there are a pair of open wards which pilgrims used to rest. Wards south dipayungi by large and shady banyan tree, called K. Sepuh. That said, a very old tree was planted by Sunan Kalijaga Kanjeng who has been there since the place was built nearly five centuries ago. Some people believe, the leaves are falling to the ground have a certain good luck. They are looking for two pieces of leaf that falls in the open and closed conditions, then bring it on the way as safety stock.
In the west there stands a large gate called the Gate Padureksa. On either side of the road to the gate, lined up a number of traditional houses called Dondhongan. This is where the family lived Dondhong, the courtiers in charge of cleaning up the yard tomb and mosque, as well as an interpreter supplications to the spirits of the ancestors are buried in the tombs of the kings, commonly known as the Tomb of Senopaten.

Padureksa gate is the gate of the courtyard entrance in the east. Stage decoration found on top of the gate and the ornaments on the walls around it, reminiscent of the decorative ornaments are often found in Hindu style buildings. The gate is equipped with a barrier wall or screen which is also made of brick. Behind this screen there is a large yard where the Great Mosque of Mataram located.
Mataram Grand Mosque is one important part of the Mataram royal palace that still stands today. Momana chronicle mentions that the mosque was completed in the year 1589 AD. The building with a roof shaped tajug bertumpang tiga.Dinding main room is still the original mosque was estimated as containing an array of limestone blocks without cement. Ponds around porch mosque formerly used by the pilgrims, to purify themselves before entering the mosque.
In addition Padureksa gate on the east side, there are 2 pieces that are similar gate on the north and south. Gate located on the south side, connecting pages with complex Tomb Mosque Senopaten. On the first page we meet, stands a building called Ward Duda. The building was built in 1644 by Sultan Agung Hanyakrakusuma, Panembahan Senopati grandson, who reigned in the kingdom of Mataram between the years 1613 to 1645. This ward is one place that is used as a place to keep the servants in the palace of Yogyakarta Sultanate and Surakarta Kasunanan who take turns doing guard duty around the tomb.
In the west there is a gate Duda Ward called Regol Sri Manganti, complete with a curtain or wall boundary. Behind Regol Sri Manganti this main page will be found before entering the Tomb Senopaten. Here are some buildings that are used as a place to keep the courtiers who served at the Tomb Senopaten, as well as a place for pilgrims to rest and prepare themselves before entering the tomb complex. 2 buildings are located on the west called the Ward clamps. North ward reserved for women pilgrims, while the south is reserved for pilgrims son. To enter the tomb complex, the pilgrims are required to follow a number of disciplines, among which the obligation to wear certain traditional dress.
Inside the tomb there are a number of graves which all are kings or their close relatives. They are buried in this cemetery are: Panembahan Senopati, Ki Ageng Pemanahan, Panembahan Sedo Krapak ing, Kanjeng Kalinyamat Queen, Queen Kanjeng Dumilah Retno, Nyai Ageng Nis, Nyai Ageng Mataram, Nyai Ageng Mertani Savior, as well as a number of other figures. At the tomb complex of buildings there Prabayeksa in a tomb that is unique, because half of being on the inside and the other half on the outside. This is the tomb of Ki Ageng Mangir Wonoboyo. That said, this is intended as a status symbol, as well as enemy Panembahan Senopati law. Also buried in this cemetery lane II, the only king of Yogyakarta Sultanate that are not buried in Imogiri, as well as the tomb of his brother, Prince Duke Pakualam I.
Pilgrims who visited the tomb or want bertirakat also required to shower or soak in the pool that lies south of the tomb. This pool is called Sendhang Selirang. There are 2 pieces sendhang, Sendhang Kakung located on the north and south Sendhang Princess. Kakung Sendhang springs supposedly located just below the tomb. While Sendhang Princess had springs coming from under the banyan tree located at the entrance of the tomb complex.
In addition to the pool, on the west wall of the tomb also contained a source of water called the Source of Kemuning. That said, the source of this water comes from the cis or arms inserted into the ground by Kanjeng Sunan Kalijaga.