INDONESIA: FRIDAY PRAYERS RESUME IN GRAND MOSQUE IN BANDA ACEH AFTER CLEANING UP FROM TSUNAMI

Record ID: 566181

  • Title: INDONESIA: FRIDAY PRAYERS RESUME IN GRAND MOSQUE IN BANDA ACEH AFTER CLEANING UP FROM TSUNAMI
  • Date: 7th January 2005
  • Summary: (W3) BANDA ACEH, ACEH PROVINCE (JANUARY 7, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF GRAND BAITURRAHMAN MOSQUE WITH DAMAGED TOWER 0.06 2. VARIOUS OF MOSQUE AND DOME WITH CLEANED LAWN (AUDIO OF IMAN CALLING PEOPLE TO PRAYER) 0.16 3. WIDE OF LINE OF PEOPLE QUEUING UP TO ENTER MOSQUE 0.22 4. SLV PEOPLE REMOVING THEIR SHOES 0.27 5. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WASHING BEFORE PRAYERS 0.38 6. VARIOUS OF MEN WALKING INTO MOSQUE 0.49 7. CLOSE OF SANDALS AND SHOES OUTSIDE ON CRACKED TILE FLOOR 0.57 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) M. KASIM, ACEHNESE, SAYING: "We are still deeply traumatised by what happened. We even still have family members still missing. I have yet to find my youngest child and I pray to Allah for his mercy and compassion. And we hope to those who can to help lighten the burden of the Acehnese people" 1.26 9. SLV M.KASIM ENTERING MOSQUE 1.35 10. WIDE OF ROWS OF PEOPLE DURING PRAYERS 1.4- 11. WIDE OF SOLDIERS JOINING PRAYERS 1.46 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) EFFENDI, VOLUNTEER FROM NORTH SUMATRA, SAYING: "I am very much touched by the many who turn up today here, to pray here for the first time since the tsunami" 1.59 13. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE PRAYING 2.32 14. WIDE OF PEOPLE LEAVING MOSQUE 2.36 15. WIDE OF EXTERIOR MOSQUE WITH PEOPLE LEAVING AFTER PRAYERS 2.42 16. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF MOSQUE 2.47 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd January 2005 12:00
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  • Location: BANDA ACEH, INONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVAN55XDNBQ0LXT695I2GE7XIZU
  • Story Text: Friday prayers resume in the grand mosque in Banda
    Aceh, the first since the tsunami hit.




    Nearly two weeks ago, the Grand Mosque Baiturrahman
    in Banda Aceh was full of dead bodies, a makeshift morque,
    and later it became a refuge for the sick, injured and scared.

    It now stood like a beacon of hope among a landscape of
    wasteland, shining with a fresh coat of white paint
    courtesy of Indonesian soldiers who have prepared it for
    Friday prayers.

    Thousands flocked Baiturrahman mosque on Friday
    (January 7) to join for the first time with others in
    prayer since the earthquake and tsunami on December 26.

    For many in this northern Indonesian province -- the
    hardest hit by the tsunami with two-thirds of the 150,000
    dead -- the giant walls of water that crashed ashore still
    left a traumatic memory to bear.

    Yet coming to Friday's prayers brought them some kind
    of solace and comfort.

    "We are still deeply traumatised by what happened. We
    even still have family members still missing. I have yet to
    find my youngest child and I pray to Allah for his mercy
    and compassion. And we hope to those who can to help
    lighten the burden of the Acehnese people," said M. Kasim.

    "I am very much touched by the many who turn up today
    here, to pray here for the first time since the tsunami,"
    said Effendi, an aid worker from North Sumatra.




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