This blog need to present and show about the ancient mosque (Masjid) in Pattani and also is the heritage place of Thailand, that is “ Krue Seh Mosque”. The ancient mosque is the heritage place of Pattani province and also can attract tourist come to travel in Pattani province of each the year. I will present about historical and biographic of Pattani first.
History of Pattani :
Figure 1 : The Pattani Big Cannon " Phaya-tani " |
Pattani is located on the Malay Peninsula, with the coast of the Gulf of Thailand in the north. In the south mountainous landscape with the Sankalakriri Mountain range, including the Bu-do Su-ngai Padi National Park, is located at the border to Yala and Narathiwat. There is border of Malaysia.
Pattani is one of the four provinces of Thailand where the majority of the population are Malay Muslim, making up 90% of the population. They speak the Patani Malay language. The Pattani Malays are very similar in ethnicity and culture to the Malays of Kelantan, Malaysia.
Figure 3 : Hitory board of Krue Se Mosque
History of Krue Se Mosque :
Figure 4 : Map of Krue Se Mos |
From its importance as the royal mosque, it was destroyed several times by the attack from wars (wars with neighbouring kingdoms like Palembang and Ayutthaya). After each war renovation took placed, unfortunately it had never finished completely. In 1786, Siam was powerful and took control over Pattani. The sacking of Siam had brought the end to Pattani as a kingdom. Most of palaces and important buildings were destroyed. Few sultans of Pattani (under the governing of Siam) have put their efforts to re-establish the Pattani old town, but never succeeded. The Pattani new town (present town) was erected 1832 and the Krue Se Mosque was left behind since then.
Thailand Fine Arts Department made the first survey of the mosque in 1935 and started a minor renovation two years later. In 1962 on the occasion that Thailand celebrated two centennial of Bangkok capital, the major renovation of Krue Se mosque was taken placed. Even the renovation was completed there has not been interpretation of the mosque nor in the school’s curricula of the importance of Pattani and the mosque. Not many people know that this was the mosque of one of the richest town-state in the Southeast Asia and it was used as royal mosque for more than 300 years
Figure 5 : Thailand Art Department come to Mosque |
Thailand Fine Arts Department made the first survey of the mosque in 1935 and started a minor renovation two years later. In 1962 on the occasion that Thailand celebrated two centennial of Bangkok capital, the major renovation of Krue Se mosque was taken placed. Even the renovation was completed there has not been interpretation of the mosque nor in the school’s curricula of the importance of Pattani and the mosque. Not many people know that this was the mosque of one of the richest town-state in the Southeast Asia and it was used as royal mosque for more than 300 years
The Incident of Krue Se Mosque :
The April 28, 2004
Figure 6 : April 28, 2004 attack on the Krue Se mosque |
Krue Se mosque, again come to the stage of attention when Islamic secessionists launched well-planned and almost simultaneous pre-dawn attacks on 11 government locations and security checkpoints in Patani, Yala and Songkhla provinces in Thailand south. 0n April 28, 2004. Thai authorities reported that 107 insurgents and five members of the security forces had been killed. 32 secessionists were shot down in the Krue Se mosque after 8 hours of battling with the police who surrounded all side of the mosque. These were the bloodiest clashes since a new wave of separatist seccessionist was launched in Thailand ’s Muslim-
dominated region in January 2004.
dominated region in January 2004.
Figure 7 : The Terrorist dead in the Mosque |
After the event, tourists had been vanished from the sense, both places were heavily guarded by Thai security official, the shooting in the mosque were investigated by the human right groups recommended by the Thai government in order to clarified the human right violation committed by Thai security official, at last no any Thai security official were punished and “Krue Se mosque" completely become the real conflict monument rather than archaeological remains as understand by the archaeologists”