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Room in of Ganjuran Hati Kudus Church

This place is one of the objects of religious or spiritual tourism in the city of Jogja, primarily intended for the Catholic religion. “Ganjuran Hati Kudus Church”, built since 1924 on the initiative of two Dutch brothers Smutzer and Julius Joseph Smutzer.

The unique church on this one, you can be a bit much to know about the history of the church and Catholic inculturation with Javanese culture. One of them, you can see the statue of Jesus in the same local faces Javanese, who wore a listening surjan and gamelan. The building is also designed with a mix of European style, Hindu, Javanese.

In the development of the church complex was completed with the construction of a temple called the Temple of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Temple Terrace behias relief with lotus flowers and the statue of Christ with the Java clothes then be another option for conducting mass and pilgrimage, but in the church of course.

Catholics for you, if you wanted to join the service in the Java language with gamelan accompaniment, you can come to this church every Thursday until Sunday at 5:30 pm, first Friday night seitap, every Christmas Eve and every Saturday afternoon at 5:00 pm. Javanese language Mass was held in the courtyard of the temple, except for a daily Mass at 5:30 each of the held in the church. The church is located in the village of Ganjuran, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.