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Church · Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta, Jakarta

Jakarta Cathedral

Katedral Jakarta

Jakarta Cathedral is the neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption on Jalan Katedral in Central Jakarta, consecrated in 1901 and standing beside the Istiqlal Mosque.

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The parish's history page says the present church was designed by the Jesuit priest-architect Antonius Dijkmans, built from 1899 under the engineer M.J. Hulswit and consecrated on 21 April 1901 by the Apostolic Vicar Edmundus Sybrandus Luypen; its forerunner on the site was blessed as the cathedral in 1829. The parish calls it a national cultural heritage site and says that in 2020 President Joko Widodo accepted a proposal for an underground 'Terowongan Silaturahmi' to link it with the Istiqlal Mosque beside it. Its Mass page says no registration is needed for daily, first-Friday or Sunday Masses and asks worshippers to dress neatly and modestly. The Cathedral Museum in the church's balcony, which the provincial portal says opened in 1991, is a separate subject. Mass times are on the parish site.

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Jakarta

Jakarta is a province-level special region of Indonesia, governed as a province with five administrative cities; the provincial government's history page says it grew from a small port at the mouth of the Ciliwung river, and its timeline dates Jakarta's designation as capital of the Republic of Indonesia to 31 August 1964. XTOUR maps the National Monument, the Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta Cathedral, the National Museum and the Kota Tua museums inside its administrative cities.

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