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The Largest Places of Worship in Indonesia

Posted by ERWIN KURNIAWAN ,

Dear guys..the heterogeneous of people and beliefs has made the culture and arts in Indonesia become rich. We can see that many people in Indonesia pray with freedom based own their beliefs. From this posting I would like to tell you about the largest places of worship in Indonesia so just have a read...

Islamic Centre mosque in Samarinda, East Kalimantan.

Islamic Center Mosque Samarinda is located in The Village of Karang Asam, Samarinda Ilir, East Kalimantan. This mosque is the largest mosque in Southeast Asia with a land area about 12 hectares and with a total building area reaches 50 thousand m2. This mosque has a main dome and golden ornaments that very wonderful. The inspiration to design of this huge mosque comes from the Nabawi Mosque in Medina which has religious nuance, combined with an artistic Great Mosque in Turkey.

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The cave of Maria Lourdes

The Cave of Maria Lourdes is located in Kediri. The land area is about 13 hectares. This church was built by Romo Wolter in 1936 AD and became the largest church in Asia. The church architecture is followed the church of Lourdes in France. Below the Maria Lourdes cave, there are 12 holy spring water that has been conserved in advance so that it can be drunk directly.

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"Maha Vihara Maitreya" temple

"Maha Vihara Maitreya" temple is built in a beautiful complex of pine in Medan, North Sumatra, that is the world's largest monasteries. This shrine is consists of three main buildings, there are general "Baktisala" as a place of worship of the "Buddha Sakyamuni", " Bodhisattva and Bodhisattva Avolokitesvara Satyakalama" with 1500 people capacity.

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Kwan Sing Bio Temple

Kwan Sing Bio Temple is the largest temple in Southeast Asia which is located in Tuban. Kwan Sing Bio Temple was founded in 18th century built on a land area of 2,1 hectares, the building of this temple is overlooking in the north sea with a rare symbol of crab in another temple. Kwan Sing Bio Temple is the main building is the relocation of the existing templen in Tambakboyo.

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Pura Besakih

"Pura Besakih" is a complex of temples located in Besakih Village, Rendang Karangasem district, Bali, Indonesia. The complex of Besakih temple consists of a central temple (Pura Penataran Agung Besakih) and 18 Pura Mate (1Pura Basukian and 17 Other). In the Pura Basukian, in this areas where the first time received the revelation of God by Hyang Markendya Rsi, the precursor of Hindu Religion Dharma in Bali now, as its center. Pura Besakih is the center of activities for all existing temples in Bali and is the largest temple in Bali.

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