West Sumatra seems to be particularly well stocked with mosques. No shortage of places to pray. Some small villages seemed to have two or three.
They're building them everywhere, sometimes way out in the back blocks. The dome is always completed first. "Where's all the money coming from?" I asked tour guide Erik. "Is it from Saudi Arabia?" Not usually, was the reply. Often it's from the overseas Indonesians, who want to give something back to their home villages.
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