Cheng Ho Mosque, Surabaya

The Cheng Ho Mosque in Surabaya is a distinctive place of worship built in the early 2000s in the style of a Chinese temple, honouring the fifteenth-century Muslim admiral Zheng He whose fleets visited the archipelago. With its red-and-green pagoda roof, ornamental gateway and Chinese decorative motifs, the mosque celebrates the long presence of Chinese Muslims in Indonesia and the exchange along the old maritime routes. The unusual fusion of Chinese architecture and Islamic function has inspired similar mosques elsewhere and remains an.