Among the Sacred Graves
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Pilgrimage is an age-old tradition in Java. Photographer Mohammad Iqbal traveled from city to city to record this enduring custom.
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HE called himself Umar. The man from Pekalongan, Central Java had long hair and wore a white fez. Sporting a brown tunic shirt and a sarong, he sits cross-legged on the ground by a dome-covered grave. He quietly recites the Yasin, part of the Muslim prayer, in offering to the soul of Sunan Bonang, one of Indonesias Muslim holy men buried there.
It was quiet that afternoon at the Kauman hamlet in Tuban, East Java, the resting place of Sunan Bonang.
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