Sam Po Kong Temple | Semarang Cultures

Gedung Batu Temple Sam Po Kong is located in the Gedung Batu, adjacent to the road or street pamularsih sampangan. where this temple has many stories that are now Gedung Batu Temple Sam Po Kong's many tourist attractions that make a family, as well as to places of worship communities Tiong Hoa

Gedung Batu Temple Sam Po Kong is a petilasan, namely former haven and the first landing of a Chinese admiral named Zheng Islamic religious He / Cheng Ho.

Called the Stone House because its shape is a huge Batu Caves are
situated on a hill of stone. Since the blurring of history, the descendants of Chinese Indonesia considers building is a temple - Chinese architecture so that their shapes resemble a temple. Now the place is used as a memorial and a place of worship or worship and places for pilgrimage. For this purpose, in the cave was placed on an altar stone, and statues of Sam Po Tay Djien. Though admiral cheng ho is a Muslim, but by those considered gods. It can dimeklumi considering Confucianism or Tau assume a deceased person may give relief to them.

According to the story, Admiral Zheng He was sailing through the sea there java a sick crew, he ordered the anchor. Then he was close to the northern coast of Semarang and set up a mosque by the beach which has now been changed into a temple. The building now has been at the center of the city of Semarang on the north coast of Java has always causes the mangalami siltation caused the sediment so that the mainland will gradually expanding towards the north.

That said, after Zheng He's leaving because he had to continue his voyage, a lot of crew who live in the village Simongan and mate with the locals. They bersawah and farming on the ground. Zheng He gives lessons about planting and spreading the teachings of Islam.

There are interesting facts presented by a source. In 1431, there were few books to spread the religion of Islam written by aides as Cheng Ho Ma Huan and Haji Haji Feh Tsing who speaks Arabic and act as a translator and record everything about negara2 visited. However tulisan2 ever tersiman in this temple during the 400-500 years usurped by Resident Poortman in 1928 on the grounds crush the communists. Of 3 wagons that records seized, of which there are writings that tell the Chinese orang2 role in the spread of Islam and the establishment of Islamic kingdom in Java (such as Demak kingdom by King Raden Patah aka Jin Bun). But some researchers doubt this because after reviewing the plan and layout of the space at Sam Po Kong temple, the document does not seem that much safely stored for hundreds of years in such places.

In 1450-1475, after the Ming Dynasty shut down and the fleet destroyed and prevented from going orang2 Chinese from mainland China and the influence of Icelandic followers among Chinese orang2 on the north coast of Java to recede. Chinese Masjid2 changed much functionality into a pagoda, and one of them is Sam Po Kong Temple.