BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of people join the Ramadan evening prayers at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in the capital of Indonesia’s far western Aceh province. They wash their hands to ...

JAKARTA: About a thousand men and women filled the iconic mosque Baiturrahman in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh amid the COVID-19 pandemic, performing evening prayers during the ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Devastated a decade ago by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Indonesian province of Aceh has turned in its recovery to religion and strict Shariah law. Many Acehnese say the ...

Hundreds of people gathered to pray at the Baiturrahman Mosque in downtown Banda Aceh. Sirens sounded across the city for three minutes to mark the time of the earthquake. In the years since 2004 ...

In provincial capital Banda Aceh's Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, relatives of the dead huddled under tents to pray for their loved ones. Some repeated the widely held view in the province that the ...

Verses from the Quran were recited by the children echoed from the loudspeaker of a white mosque located near the coast of Lampuuk in Lhoknga district of Aceh province in Indonesia's western ...

"For me, it was going to pray," she said. Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, Banda Aceh (Indonesia), June 2, 2023. ATIKAH ZATA AMANI FOR LE MONDE The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, spared by the waves ...

Indonesia on Thursday remembered its 167,000 victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at the Sumatran city of Banda Aceh’s Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, one of the only buildings to withstand the ...

Banda Aceh was the final stopping-off point for many Asian pilgrims before they sailed to Arabia to perform hajj, and it became known as the "Doorway to Mecca". The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque is ...

A member of Indonesia's Sharia police (R) whips a man (L) accused of having gay sex during a public caning ceremony outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province, on July 13 ...

Being a ranger is considered a man’s job and thus taboo for women in Aceh, where Islam is the dominant religion and which is the only Indonesian province to have implemented Shariah law.