BANK OF INDONESIA BUILDING
Bank
Indonesia Medan Office was opened on 30 July 1907 in conjunction with the
Branch Office and Tanjung Pura Tanjung Balai. It was the 11th branch
of de javasche Bank. Those building were all built along with the development
of Medan City in Eastern coast of East Sumatra due to the massive growth of
Tobacco plantation. Located nearby Merdeka Square, train station , post office
and Medan City Hall.
MEDAN CITY HALL
Medan City
Hall ( Gedung Balai Kota ) is located on Jalan Balai Kota, Medan. It was built
during the Dutch East indies era in 1908 by Hulswit & Fermont and updated
in 1923 by Eduard Cuypers ( newphew of Pierre Cuypers),architect of other
notable colonial buildings in the Indies . The City Hall is kilometer zero in
Medan and was originally built for De Javasche Bank (now Bank Indonesia), but
was instead purchased by the City Council of Medan. Its bell was donated in
1913 from Tjong A Fie Mansion.Medan City Hall is now overshadowed by the giant
3 skycraper’ Grand Aston City Hall “Hotel –Office – retail” complex.
MONUMENT OF GURU PATIMPUS
Guru
Patimpus who opened and established the villages where 2 rivers Deli and Babura
who named the “ Medan” the date as 1 July ,1590, which is now celebrated as the
anniversary of the city of Medan.
KUALA NAMU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Kuala Namu
International Aiport is a newly constructed international airport. Location at
Kuala Namu, Deli Serdang regency, 39 kilometres from Medan. The airport is to
become the new international transit centre in Sumatra and the western part of
Indonesia, which it is the second largest airport after Soekarno- Harta
International Aiport, with the first airport which has a direct rail link to
Medan City.
MUSEUM PERJUANGAN
This museum
displays history of struggles of Indonesian military along with their weapons.
There are at least 555 historical collections related to the physical revolution
1945- 1948.
Located at
Jalan Zainul Arifin No 8, Petisah , Medan. Open at 7 am – 3pm at Monday –
Friday.
RAHMAT INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE MUSEUM &
GALLERY
Located in
Jalan S. Parman 309, Medan Rahmat Gallery is the one in Asia that has display
2000 species of animals of various countries.
Museum
& gallery has been recorded in the Record Book and received international
awards of conservation efforts to prevent the extinction of wildlife in the
world. The atmosphere is fun, beautiful architecture and the building will be
presenting real world wildlife and natural environment
NORTH SUMATERA MUSEUM
Located on
Jalan HM Joni 15, Medan, Contains collections originating from North Sumatra,
objects pf cultural heritage ranging from prehistoric, classical influence of
Hindu Buddhist, Islamic, to the history of today. Others come from other parts
of Indonesia and from other countries such as Thailand. Until 2005 the State
Museum of North Sumatra province saves approximately 6799 collection.
SHRI MARIAMMAN TEMPLE
Sri
Mariamman temple is Medan’s oldest Hindu temple
This temple
built in 1881 for worship Goddess Mariamman. The temple is situated in the area
known as Kampung Madras or Medan’s Little India. This temple stanning of 3 God,
each God Ganesha ,Murugan and Goddess Mariamman. The Gate decorated by gopuram,
namely storey tower which can usually be found at the gate of the Hindus
temples in South India or some sort of gate. This temple always be meeting
point by worshippers on Thaipusam and Deepavali festival.
VIHARA GUNUNG TIMUR
Vihara
Gunung Timur is a Chinese Taoism temple which is the largest in the city of
Medan. This temple was built in the 1962. This temple is located at Jalan Hang
Tuah, about 500 meters from the Sri Mariamman temple and is located on the side
of Babura River. It contains a large paved area with an impressively scaled
incense burner, a very large main hall and is partly surrounded by a most and
walls. This temple already served as main temple in Medan for many years and it
was also one of Medan’s cultural icons. This temple always be filled with
worshippers in Imlek and Cap Goh Meh festival.
IMMANUEL CHURCH
Located in
Jalan Diponegoro No 24-27, Medan.A dull whitewashed building with
renaissance-style architecture. The peak of the dome shaped tower, typical of
Dutch heritage buildings. In it there is an iron bell is almost 2 meters high
made in 1922.The tower is also decorated by 4 clocks facing 4 different
directions.
LOCOMOTIVE MONUMENT
Located on
the side of the Medan city railway station. There are monuments steam
locomotive type 2-6-4T made 1914 by Hartmann in Chemnitz , Germany.
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