Study of Visual and Analysis Ornaments on The mosque of Hunto Sultan Amay Gorontalo

This research is aimed at studying the Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque located in Gorontalo
City. Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque is the oldest mosque in the city of Gorontalo The Hunto Sultan
Amay Mosque was built as proof of Sultan Amay’s love for a daughter and is a representation of
Islam in Gorontalo. Researchers will investigate the visual form of the Hunto Sultan Amay
Mosque which was originally like an ancient mosque in the archipelago. can be seen from the
shape of the roof which initially used an overlapping roof and then converted into a dome as well
as mosques in the world, we can be sure the Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque uses a dome roof after
the arrival of Dutch Colonial. The researcher used a qualitative method by observing the existing
form in detail from the building of the mosque with an aesthetic approach, reviewing objects and
selecting the selected ornament giving a classification of the shapes, so that the section became
a reference for the author as research material.Based on the analysis of this thesis, the form of
the Hunto Sultan Amay mosque as well as the mosques located in the archipelago and the
existence of ornaments in the Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque as a decorative structure support the
grandeur of a mosque. On the other hand, Hunto Mosque ornaments reveal a teaching. The form
of a teaching is manifested in the form of motives and does not depict living beings in a realist or
naturalist manner. the decorative forms of the Hunto Sultan Sultan Mosque in general tend to
lead to a form of flora, geometric ornaments, and ornament of calligraphy dominated by the
distinctive colors of Islam, namely gold, white, red, yellow and green.