Martapura is capital of the Banjar Regency

Banjar Regency

Banjar Regency is one of regencies in the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan, the capital is Martapura. This region is praised for its diamond mines and its people religiousity . Motto: "Barakat" ....

 divided into 3 subdistrict

Subdistrict

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s, such as Martapura, West Martapura, and East Martapura. This town is famous as santri

Santri

The Santri are a cultural 'stream' of people within the population of Javanese who practice a more orthodox version of Islam, in contrast to the abangan classes....

city in Kalimantan

Kalimantan

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, because of Darussalam pesantren

Pesantren

Pesantren or Pondok Pesantren are Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia. According to one popular tradition, the pesantren education system originated from traditional Javanese pondokan; dormitories; ashram for Hindu or viharas for Buddhists to learn religious philosophies, martial arts and...

. Originally this town was named Kayutangi which was the last capital of Sultanate of Banjar

Sultanate of Banjar

Sultanate of Banjar was a sultanate that is now located at South Kalimantan Province. At first, the capital of the sultanate was Banjarmasin, but then moved to Martapura.- History :...

. The famous Banjarese ulema

Ulema

Ulama , also spelt ulema, refers to the educated class of Muslim legal scholars engaged in the several fields of Islamic studies. They are best known as the arbiters of shari‘a law...

 Sheikh

Sheikh

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 Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari, author of Sabilal Muhtadin

Sabilal Muhtadin

Sabilal Muhtadin is the largest mosque in Banjarmasin, Indonesia in terms of capacity to accommodate people. The name chosen for this Banjarmasin Sultan Mosque, is a tribute and appreciation of the late Grand Scholars, Sheikh Muhammad al-Banjary Arsyad , who had developed the Islamic religion in...

 comes from this town. This town is often visited by tourist because of its diamond

Diamond

In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions...

 industry center and the main diamond polishing in Kalimantan and provides many jewelry handicrafts.

Martapura is often called as kota Veranda of Mecca

Mecca

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 because there are many santris wearing white clothes in this town who walk up and down to study Islam

Islam

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 and similar with Mecca when hajj

Hajj

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season.