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Jakarta Cathedral History

Jakarta Cathedral Building is now located at No. Jl.Katedral. 2, are the work of the architect of the church pastor Father Anthony Dijkmans, SJ. A Dutch priest who served in Indonesia at that time. Jakarta Cathedral building this magnificent start was founded in 1891 to replace the old church building that collapsed on 9 April 1890 pulul 10:45 pm just 3 days after the celebration of Passover. Development of this new church had to face many obstacles, in the year 1892 sepat even halted due to financial shortage. Jakarta Cathedral building was also to lose the architect who had returned to Holland in 1894 because of illness and eventually he was called God in the year 1922. Jakarta Cathedral so that any dormant. After stopping for some time finally on January 16, 1899, Jakarta Cathedral construction began again marked by laying the first stone by Mgr ES Luypen SJ, as a bishop at that time. Acting as engineers are M.J. Hulswit. The pastor and congregation when it tried with all the effort to raise funds for the construction of the Cathedral Church of Jakarta, one of them by selling raffle. This was evidenced by the existing record in the Cathedral Museum, Jakarta. This is a historical evidence that the Jakarta Cathedral Church building was not a gift from the Dutch colonial government. Construction of the Cathedral Church of Jakarta, had stopped again, again - ...

10 Aug 2010 | Leave comment | by bcbolee

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