Bersambung dari Masjid
(Mosque of) Sunan Giri.
Continued from Masjid
(Mosque of) Sunan Giri.
Dari Masjid Sunan Giri kami mengambil sebuah jalan untuk keluar dari lingkungan kota Gresik. Sampai di kawasan bernama Leran kami singgah ke makam seorang wanita bernama Fatimah binti Maimun.
From the mosque of Sunan Giri we took a road to go out of the vicinity of Gresik town. Upon reaching an area called Leran we stopped by at the tomb of a woman named Fatimah binti Maimun.
Bangunan makamnya dikatakan memiliki ciri-ciri binaan Jawa kuno.
The building is said to have the qualities of ancient Jawa building.
Fatimah binti Maimun dikatakan mangkat tahun 1082 Masihi.
Fatimah binti Maimun is said to have passed away in the year 1082 AD.
Maka itu beliau harus hidup 400 tahun lebih awal daripada zaman Wali Songo!
Thus she must have lived 400 years earlier than the era of Wali Songo (the nine famous saints of Jawa)!
Makamnya dikatakan makam Islam tertua di Pulau Jawa.
Her tomb is said to be the oldest Islamic tomb in the island of Jawa.
Fatimah dikatakan berketurunan Parsi. Peliknya, ayahnya Maimun bin Hibatullah dikatakan pernah menjadi raja Melaka.
Fatimah is said to be of Persian descent. Strangely, her father Maimun bin Hibatullah is said to have been the king of Melaka.
Turut terdapat dalam bangunan adalah makam beberapa orang puteri.
Also available inside the building are the tombs of a number of princesses.
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For information this is the 979th article in this blogspot.