Saturday, March 6, 2010

Klenteng Sam Poo Kong,Semarang,Central Java,Indonesia

Temple or Sam Poo Kong temple is located in the Simongan, Semarang. Quite easily accessible from the city of Semarang, there are signs that the road is clear. Often called the Stone House for its large stone cave believed to be the starting place to land and the headquarters of Admiral Cheng Ho (also known as Sam Poo Tay Djien) along with his men during a visit to the island of Java.

Admiral Cheng Ho came China, and sailed with a fleet of 200 ships and 2700 crew of people (so imagine the movie Red Cliff) for peacekeeping mission to Asia and Africa. Along the way a child found to have a sick crew. Eventually they landed and stopped disebuah village, named Simongan. Admiral Cheng Ho discovered a stone cave in the area for use as a place to meditate and pray. He finally decided to temporarily stay in place while waiting for the healing process of the crew who were given the drug from the herb leaves surrounding the place. Many of his crew who marries a population of about and eventually settled there. Admiral Cheng Ho provides many farming knowledge and character knowledge. After Zheng He must continue his journey, people in the cult of Simongan provides Cheng Ho as a thank you for services - services. They worshiped Cheng Ho as a person worthy of respect and uphold and sought his blessing.

This temple is very broad and has several buildings. The first building is a kind of hall that sells incense for the sake of sembayang, then there is another hall which provides photography services using the traditional dress of China, and its main building is the temple or the temple itself consists of several buildings.

There are several places of worship frequented by pilgrims are:

1.Tempat Pemujaan Dewa Bumi atau Fu De Zheng Shen (Hok Tek Cheng Sin Hokkian)
Cult place called Earth Deity Shrine Tee Thao Kong is a place of worship to give thanks or ask blessings and salvation to the god of life who rule the earth.

2.Tempat Pemujaan Kyai Juru Mudi
Helm of the tomb of the ship that Admiral Zheng He

3.Tempat Sam Poo Kong cult statues. Place of Sam Poo Kong cult is central to all activities in the Stone Building complex is used for blessing beg oray safety, health, and remembering Sam Poo Tay services by organizing praying Djien. In this place there are caves that have water sources that are often used to treat a sick family.

4. Tempat Pemujaan Kyai Jangkar
5.Tempat Pemujaan Kyai Cundrik Bumi. This place is the treasure or weapons storage at the time of Sam Poo Kong.

6. Tempat Pemujaan Kyai & Nyi Tumpeng.. This place is a tomb inscription in the form used to meditate or beg a blessing as well as forging themselves.

In the middle of this temple there is a big yard, with some statues that stood strong. And at the back gate there is a very large. And look a couple of giant candles with the donor's name, most of the company's behalf. These candles allowed to continue burning until the end. To enter this temple is not charged at all, for parking subject to USD 3000 in the temple parking lot and USD 2000 in the outer temple.

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