History of the mosque
Masjid Raya Baiturrahman is a mosque of Sultanate of Aceh built by Sultan Iskandar Muda Mahkota Alam in 1022 H / 1612 AD The 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 burned. Then, in 1877 the Dutch rebuilt the Baiturrahman Great Mosque to attract the attention and dampen the anger of the Acehnese. 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 comes chuckle awe at the history and beauty of architecture, where Baiturrahman Great Mosque is one of the most beautiful mosques 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.
Witness mute tsunami tragedy
Ten years ago, Sunday morning, December 26, 2004, a magnificent earthquake measuring 9.1 to 9.3 on the Richter scale occurred in the Indian Ocean to the west coast of Sumatra. In the northwest of Simeuleu island with a depth of 30 km below sea level occurred two collisions of the earth plate.
The Indies plate underwent subduction (thrust in) by the Burma Plate of the Indies plates pressed upward as high as 100 feet or 30 meters. The urgent slab stretches for more than 600 miles or more of 965.6 kilometers set in a sea level rising as high as 5 meters.
The earthquake that caused the rise of the span of the plates swung giant energy in aerial wave speeds of over 1,000 km per hour. So powerful, that energy hit the coast in solid 15 countries ranging from Thailand, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Madagascar, Yemen, to South Africa. The recorder of the Showa Base wave data in Japan even reported that the flood came to Antarctica with a sea wave as high as 1 meter.
The countries closest to the epicenter of the earthquake were very encouraging. Four countries have severe impacts, namely Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.
The mosque stood still
So many lives floated on the show. Many of the buildings were damaged. However, there is one thing that is recorded in the public mind when remembering the tsunami is to stay strong mosque building, both Baiturrahman highway mosque in Banda Aceh is also a large mosque in Meulaboh.
The writings of Sisiria Jayasuria and Peter McCawley in the book "The Asian Tsunami" seem to explain it from a scientific point of view. In a book published in 2010, either from Banda Aceh is located within a radius of 300 km from the epicenter of the Megathrust earthquake. Banda Aceh was the first place affected by the megathrust earthquake. Buildings and houses collapsed raucous residents buried r.
Many survivors. An hour and a half after the earthquake, as people gathered to help the flood victims, the sump air came from the ocean. At first glance the flood is not too dangerous, but it actually brings death. When you realize how dangerous, people have not had time to save themselves.
McCawley explained, the tsunami fit does look like a regular wave that is not high. However, after the waves came, there appeared waves that immediately rolled when blocked something. The higher the obstacle, the greater is also. A new wave of waves arose as the flood of meetings penetrated and outperformed the higher ground through its next wave.
In the Indian Ocean Tsunami (2007) Tsunami tsunami research team from Japan the highest wave height was in Rhiting, southwest of Banda Aceh, reaching 48.8 meters. Medium in the city of Banda Aceh is flat, tsunami waves highest reaches 6 meters.
Both books provide an overview of the tsunami in Aceh like a layman's image of the gigantic waves that have soared since coming from the oceans. Tsunami that come to the flat land of giant wave waves, sailors urging sea waves. The problem is, the ocean waves rage into high rolling waves if there is a higher area.
After going through the process of renovation since 2015, now Baiturrahman Great Mosque, Banda Aceh has been inaugurated.
Changes to the building of the mosque include the establishment of 12 units of electric umbrellas, marble floors, ablution, underground parking, lamp decorations, and the presence of thirty more palm trees.
The plan, the next stage of renovation is the expansion of the mosque yard.
This reshuffle itself is expected to make the Baiturrahman Great Mosque not only as a place of worship, but also the center of Islamic studies in Aceh and Indonesia.