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While houses dating back to the sultanate of Banjar are rare, the traditional style of architecture of the Banjar people has been adopted by modern architects in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. [1] The most well-known style is the bubungan tinggi , which were originally houses with high, ridged roofs and were occupied by royalty, nobility, and ...
Nowadays most Banjar people have little interest in building Bubungan Tinggi. Beside the fact that it is expensive to build, people prefer the "modern" type of house. Its cultural values, however, are still appreciated. It is the main figure in both South Kalimantan and Banjarmasin's coat of arms. Many of the modern governmental buildings are ...
Etymologically, the word Banjar is derived from terminology in the Janyawai dialect of Ma'anyan language, which rooted from Old Javanese language. It is initially used to identified the Ma'anyan, Meratus Dayak, and Ngaju people who are already "Javanized" when the Javanese people arrived in the southeastern Kalimantan regions to established their civilization.
Built in 1526 during the reign of Sultan Suriansyah , the first Banjar King to convert to Islam. The mosque is located in the village of Kuin Utara, in Banjarmasin. The mosque is a stilt house, made out of ironwood and with a three-story roof. The mihrab has its own roof, separate from the main building.
Banjar, West Java, a city in West Java province of Indonesia; Banjar Regency, a regency in South Kalimantan province of Indonesia; Banjar Region, an autonomous area formed in the southeastern part of Indonesian island of Borneo by the Netherlands in 1948; Sultanate of Banjar, a former sultanate located in modern South Kalimantan Province of ...
Banjaras were historically pastoralists, traders, breeders, and transporters of goods in the inland regions of India, for which they used boats, carts, camels, oxen, donkeys, and sometimes the relatively scarce horse, hence controlling a large section of trade and economy.
Religious architecture varies from indigenous forms to mosques, temples, and churches. The sultans and other rulers built palaces. There is a substantial legacy of colonial architecture in Indonesian cities. Independent Indonesia has seen the development of new paradigms for postmodern and contemporary architecture.
The rock-cut architecture found in cave viharas from the 2nd-century BCE have roots in the Maurya Empire period. [14] In and around the Bihar state of India are a group of residential cave monuments all dated to be from pre-common era, reflecting the Maurya architecture.