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   Grand Mosque of West Sumatra

   The largest mosque in West Sumatra, finished in 2019. It has no dome: the roof takes the upswept gables of Minangkabau building instead, and the structure is engineered to survive earthquakes and to serve as a tsunami refuge, which this coast has needed.

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   Nurul Iman Mosque, Padang

   A mosque at a main crossroads in Padang, built by the army and the central government after the regional rebellion of the late 1950s as a gesture of reconciliation with West Sumatra.

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   Andalas Grand Mosque

   A green two-storey mosque in the Andaleh quarter of east Padang, with a minaret at one corner and a covered entrance on the south side, serving the surrounding neighbourhood.

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   Ganting Grand Mosque

   A Sunni mosque at Ganting in Padang in West Sumatra in Indonesia. Work began in 1805, making it the oldest in Padang and among the oldest in Indonesia; it is a protected heritage site.

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   Teluk Bayur Grand Mosque

   An old mosque near the port of Teluk Bayur, grown from a seventeenth-century prayer house, with the present building put up in the Dutch period. Its ground floor is still used for religious teaching.

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   Muhammadan Mosque

   A mosque on Jalan Batipuh Panjang in Padang in West Sumatra, Indonesia. It was built in 1843 and is connected with the merchants who came from Gujarat in India.

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   Adityawarman Museum

   The provincial museum of West Sumatra at Padang in Indonesia. Its ethnographic collections set out the cultures of the province, centred on the Minangkabau and the Mentawai.

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   Padang Beach

   The city beach of Padang, known by a Minang word meaning waterfront, running from Purus to the river mouth. It is where the city walks at sunset; the 2009 earthquake damaged the promenade and it was rebuilt.

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   Taqwa Muhammadiyah Mosque

   A mosque in the Belakang Tangsi quarter of Padang built in 1957, and one of the principal Muhammadiyah mosques in the city — the reformist movement that has been strong in West Sumatra for a century.

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    Al-Hakim Mosque

    A mosque in Berok Nipah, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Built in 2017, it holds 600 worshippers and stands close to Padang beach.

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   Old Bank Indonesia Building, Padang

   A bank building in Padang begun in 1921 and finished in 1925 as the local branch of the Java Bank, taken over by Indonesia's central bank in 1953 and now a museum of its own history.

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   Michiels Monument

   A monument that stood at Padang in West Sumatra, Indonesia. It was raised in 1855 on what is now Taman Melati and commemorated the Dutch general Andreas Michiels, who subjugated West Sumatra.

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