Wednesday, August 11, 2010

DANDANGAN GREET RAMADHAN

In order to welcome the holy month of Ramadan, the Holy District held a procession dandangan. Dandangan procession is a tradition that the Holy District has a high religious value which is intended to announce the beginning of the coming month of Ramadan. This event was livened up with the market the people in the area around the minaret began on August 1 to 10, 2010 and dandangan carnival procession on August 10, 2010 which started from Jalan Lukmonohadi until the Holy Square.


This carnival procession dandangan describes the history which tells the development of Islam in a simple, hosted by participants of the procession that is by displaying banners and caregivers struggle with the santrinya Sunan Kudus. In addition, also displayed as a symbol of evil in running the fasting test.



 

In this dandangan carnival not only visualization dandangan procession tradition, but also enlivened by the appearance of the cultural potential of the five villages in the Holy. These include Japanese Village Potential (Sub Mejobo) displays the tradition of "Peace Water", the Village Padurenan (Gebog) tradition "Maulidan Jawiyan", Loram Kidul Village (Mejobo) tradition "Ampyang Mawlid", Village Patiayam (Jekulo) tradition "Patiayam Festival", and Village wonosoco (Undaan) tradition of "Clean" Spring-Clean."


Is covered with a ceremonial drum beating, followed by Holy Regent Head of Culture and Tourism of the Holy District, followed by a number of community leaders, and representatives from the parliament of the Holy.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Kudus City

Kudus was something of an important Islamic holy city in the sixteenth century. It is the only place in Java that has permanently acquired an Arabic name ('al-Quds', Jerusalem). Sunan Kudus, one of the nine Wali Songo, was said to have been the fifth imam (head) of the mosque of Demak and a major leader of the 1527 campaign against 'Majapahit', before moving to Kudus.

The Mosque of Kudus (Masjid Menara) which dates from this period, remains a local landmark to this day. It is notable for both its perseverance of pre-Islamic architectural forms such as Old Javanese split doorways and Hindu-Buddhist influenced Majapahit-style brickwork, and for its name a;-Manar or al-Aqsa. The date AH 956 (AD 1549) is inscribed over the mihrab (nice indicating the direction of Mecca).

Most residents of Kudus are Javanese although there is an Indonesian Chinese minority in the city centre, as well as an Arab neighbourhood, Kudus Kulon, to the west of the city centre. The city is considered the "birthplace" of the kretek clove cigarette, which is by far the most widely-smoked form of tobacco in the country. Haji Jamahri, a resident of the city, invented them in the 1880s, and the city remains a major centre for their manufacture.

A festival named Dandangan is held for about one week at Muslim's Id Qurban in Kudus Kulon


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