Sion Church
Late-1600s brick church with an ebony baroque pulpit, copper chandeliers and an old balcony organ.
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This guide to Sion Church in Jakarta follows Ewout Verhagen, the Rotterdam builder who began a brick church outside Batavia's walls in sixteen ninety-three, and the problem he had to solve before laying a single stone. It touches the Mardijkers, freed Portuguese-speaking Asians who worshipped here, and the strange recipe said to bind the walls. Best heard inside, near the ebony pulpit beneath the copper chandeliers.
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