Engraving Road, District Pekojan, West Jakarta, perhaps more rightly be called the alley because there are only two goods road footprint. In this alley there was a miserable old building, which is the mosque of Al-Anshor. The mosque which is now so tiny it is established by immigrants from Malabar (India) in the 17th century.
If in 1648 the mosque was standing wide with burial in the mosque complex, then the condition is now very much different. The mosque is now located in dense village alley. Both the yard and the tomb is believed to be the tomb of the founder of the mosque was now gone.
The mosque is now shrunk to only 12 mx 12 m is arguably no longer the original. Because the renovation ever done seems less attention to the principles of restoration. The remaining original buildings that still only represented by a latticed windows, doors, and wooden bar on the roof. The rest, including the four pillars, has changed.
According to the mosque guards, Paiman Legiman son, who grew up in this alley, the old mosque is now untouchable as the attention of relevant agencies. "Last year we got flooded to a height of 70 cm. Why would baseball want, we are self-supporting, so that the mosque make safe from flooding. So we raise up the front," he said.
Indeed, in the courtyard of the mosque was now visible remnant of development that has not been finished. "We ask no attention from the government because this is a heritage building. Old-ilang long can this mosque," said Paiman expressed concern.
Efforts last renovation was done in 1997 or 10 years ago. But, yet again over the last 10 years of renovation, existing buildings that collapsed, so renovations must be done by the local people. "There never was a survey of government. I'm confused, seems to really break up the relationship between the government and the old mosque. Because baseball never any attention," said Paiman. At the mouth of the alley toward the mosque was plastered a large board that contains the determination of the mosque is a building of cultural heritage.
Old village
In the area Pekojan actually not only the old mosque of Al-Anshor. As an old village that used to be the center of the village of Indians and Arabs, still there is a mosque?-Other old mosques there. Among other An-Nawier mosque which was built in 1760, as one of the largest mosques not only in Pekojan, but also in West Jakarta. Then there is a mosque built Langgar High in 1829 and is located right on the banks of Kali Angke. Another is Jami'atul Khair Mosque, founded in 1901. But from all that, al-Anshor was the most miserable.
Masjid An-Nawier can accommodate up to 2,000 worshipers. In the back of the mosque there is the tomb Syarifah Fatmah Alaydrus bint Hussein who earned the nickname Jide (little grandmother) that until now his grave is still diziarahi many people. This mosque has 33 pillars in the prayer room and minarets resembling a lighthouse which is the uniqueness of the mosque.
High Break Mosque named as such because the two-story mosque and when it's the merchants who were passing time can be directly Angke ablutions in this place. The mosque was built by a Captain Arab named Sheikh Said Naum. Before becoming a captain he was a fairly wealthy merchant in Palembang.
The Jami'atul Khair mosque began when at the beginning of the 20th century madrasah in Pekojan stand Jamiatul Khair (good association), precisely in 1901. The organization was set up by Ali and Idrus, both of the Shahab family. This association raises the sympathy of Muslim figures, such as KH Ahmad Dahlan (the founder of Muhammadiyah), HOS Cokroaminoto (Syarikat founder of Islam) and H Agus Salim.
The origins Pekojan
The name comes from the word Khoja Pekojan or Kaja, a local name in India that some people livelihood and Muslim merchants. In addition to their trade also spread Islam in this area.
Prof. Van de Berg in his book Hadramaut and the Arab colony in the archipelago to mention, before inhabited by ethnic Arabs from Hadramaut, the area first became the residence of Bengali people / Koja from India.
One policy Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie (VOC) against ethnic groups in Batavia is putting them in certain areas based on ethnicity (Wijkstelsel). In addition it also enforces political VOC passenstelsel.
With this system Pekojan residents who will be brought to other places the road passes. From the territorial division based on ethnicity that so now we know the Kampung Melayu, Bali, Banda, Macassar, Java.
Sources:
Warta Kota
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