Indonesian is well known as Muslim country, even the biggest muslim community in the world, So that's why we have a lot of mosque with unique design. Now I will take you to the one of unique mosque in Surabaya, it called Cheng Ho Mosque.. most people called Masjid Cheng Ho..
It was build on 1996 by the Indonesian Muslim - Thionghoa Community (PITI), located on Jl. Gading No. 2, behind Jl. Kusuma Bangsa Surabaya. This mosque has two blended culture, java and oriental. You will see the red ornament as the main color of this mosque, on the top it has a pagoda,like oriental building, and joglo as a canopy. it has 231 meter square (11 m x 21 m).
Cheng Ho's name taken from the Chinese Admiral, he was a great admiral from China who voyaged to Java Island, if you want to know about Admiral Cheng Ho please visit this site .
This Cheng Ho's Mosque is not only for chinese community only, all of you are allowed to come and pray to this Masjid.. come follow me
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