Indonesian architecture reflects diverse cultural influences including Indian, Chinese, Arab, and European. Major structures include Borobudur Temple, influenced by Gupta India, and Lawang Sewu in Semarang with a history involving Dutch colonists. Turkish architecture was influenced by Seljuk and Ottoman styles in early republican years. Significant buildings are Hagia Sophia mosque/museum reflecting Christian and Byzantine traditions and the Çifte Minareli Medrese Seljuk-style religious school in Erzurum.
Indonesian architecture reflects diverse cultural influences including Indian, Chinese, Arab, and European. Major structures include Borobudur Temple, influenced by Gupta India, and Lawang Sewu in Semarang with a history involving Dutch colonists. Turkish architecture was influenced by Seljuk and Ottoman styles in early republican years. Significant buildings are Hagia Sophia mosque/museum reflecting Christian and Byzantine traditions and the Çifte Minareli Medrese Seljuk-style religious school in Erzurum.
Indonesian architecture reflects diverse cultural influences including Indian, Chinese, Arab, and European. Major structures include Borobudur Temple, influenced by Gupta India, and Lawang Sewu in Semarang with a history involving Dutch colonists. Turkish architecture was influenced by Seljuk and Ottoman styles in early republican years. Significant buildings are Hagia Sophia mosque/museum reflecting Christian and Byzantine traditions and the Çifte Minareli Medrese Seljuk-style religious school in Erzurum.
INDONESIAN The architecture of Indonesia Traditionally, the most significant reflects the diversity of foreign influence has been cultural, historical and Indian. However, Chinese, Arab, geographic influences that and European influences have have shaped Indonesia as a also played significant roles in whole shaping Indonesian architecture. BOROBUDU R TEMPLE Borobudur is Indonesia's cultural heritage that is famous in all corners of the world. Its construction was influenced by the architecture of Gupta India. Lawang sewu Lawang Sewu is one of the historic architectural icons in Semarang. The history of the establishment of Lawang Sewu itself is quite long and involves the intervention of the Dutch colonialists. TURKEY In the first years of the republic, Turkish architecture was influenced by Seljuk and Ottoman architecture, in particular during the First National Architectural Movement (also called the Turkish Ottoman Seljuk architecture architecture Ottomans were built on the produced a practical traditions of Christian Islam and beautiful and Byzantium to produce architecture, clean their own magnificent and and clean but with harmonious styles. some intricately decorated elements. Hagia shopia Hagia Sophia, also known as Aya Sofya in Turkish, is an old church building, converted into a mosque, and is now a museum in Istanbul. Çifte Minareli Medrese Çifte Minareli Medrese is an architectural monument from the Seljuk period in the city of Erzurum, Turkey.