Is Green Architecture always Identical with Islamic Architecture Assessment on Stacked Grave in Majasto Cemetery Central Java

Abstract

There are presumption if the green architecture is identically with Islamic one. This statement requires a comparison. For this reason the research has been done in Majasto cemetery, a place that indicate used the both, green and Islamic architecture approach. After a descriptive qualitative research has done, it was found that: (a) green architecture is not always identical with Islamic architecture depend on interpretation of Islamic teaching by local community; (b) Need the tauhid concept that green architecture can be categorized in Islamic architecture; (c) Islamic architecture is involved not only in physical form, but it goes beyond of ideological system, ideas, behavior to physical form as artifact; (d) Both, stacked grave system of Majasto cemetery plus tauhid philosophy, is a sample from green approach in Islamic architecture. That can be applied universally in Surakarta as well as other large cities.