Aesthetical Value of Architecture of the Great Mosque of Kasunanan Surakarta toward Timelapse Application

Promotion media in this modern era have a huge effect on improvement of culturally-significant building tourism potentials particularly in Surakarta City. One of these buildings in Surakarta which still exists to date is the Great Mosque of Surakarta. The Great Mosque of Surakarta had long been established as one of Surakarta’s historical buildings because the city was one of centers of government in Java at the times of Mataram Islamic Kingdom. This study aims at exploring the aesthetics of beauty of the Great Mosque of Surakarta so that it has a tourist appeal. This study used the qualitative research with multidisciplinary approach, combining historical research with field research (ex post facto). The result shows that the Great Mosque is rich of philosophical values contained in its architectural arts. Positive messages and images intrinsically shown in the Great Mosque are then put together in a form of aesthetics produced through time-lapse technique in a promotional video. This research has an implication that a positive image exists in the preservation of culturally-significant building resulting from the production of the branding video of the Great Mosque of Surakarta.