From Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia, by Steve Raymer
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From Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia, by Steve Raymer |
Prostrate before God, some 20,000 worshippers fill Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque - the national mosque of Indonesia - for Friday prayers. When the mosque opened in 1978 after 17 years of construction, Indonesians of all religions took pride in the colossal achievement -one of the country's first big post-independence building projects. The Istiqlal Mosque is sometimes compared to other mammoth places of worship on the island of Java - the Buddhist pyramid of Borobudur and the Hindu temples of Prambanan. |
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