Kraton Kanoman, Palace in Cirebon City, Indonesia

Kraton Kanoman is a sultanate palace in Cirebon that combines Sundanese, Javanese, Islamic, Chinese, and Dutch building styles. Several structures and courtyards spread across the grounds, forming a complex shaped by different periods and influences.

Kraton Kanoman was founded around 1677–1678 by Pangeran Mohamad Badridin, titled Sultan Anom I, giving Cirebon a second sultanate beside Kasepuhan. Its rear Bangsal Witana, said to be the house of Prince Walangsungsang, dates to 1428, making the complex the oldest in Cirebon. In 1924 the Dutch completed a market on part of the northern alun-alun, blocking the palace from the main road.

The palace keeps the Grebeg Syawal tradition, held a week after Eid al-Fitr, and pilgrimages to the tomb of Sunan Gunung Jati at Astana village north of Cirebon. Chinese porcelain plates are set into the plastered walls of the Cirebon palaces, and the complex always faces north, with a tiger statue in the courtyard as the emblem of Prabu Siliwangi.

The complex sits behind Kanoman market, so the palace is no longer visible from the main road to the north; the Dutch market building of 1924 blocks the view. Enter from the alun-alun through the gapura in the whitewashed brick wall of Lemah Duwur, which stands 1.30 m high and is decorated with ceramic plates. The north gapura measures 3 m by 4 m, the west 5 m by 4 m, the south 2.50 m by 2 m.

The two split gates with pyramidal peaks flanking the way to Mande Manguntur are a Cirebon emblem; the masonry pavilions of the siti inggil are built of brick and plaster rather than the usual Javanese timber. Chinese ceramic plates are set into the plastered walls, as at the Great Mosque of Demak.