Qualla: Sultan of Ternate Mosque https://qualla.com/sultan-of-ternate-mosque en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/b/4/s/sultan-of-ternate-mosque-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sultan of Ternate Mosque https://qualla.com/sultan-of-ternate-mosque Sultan of Ternate Mosque: Introduction https://qualla.com/sultan-of-ternate-mosque/ Photo credit Si Gam, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the sixteenth night of Ramadan, the Sultan of Ternate still rides to prayer in a palanquin. The ceremony is called Kolano Uci Sabea, and it ends the same way it has for centuries: the Sultan and his queen ascending to a room above the shrine of their ancestors, praying, then emerging to greet the people of Ternate. The mosque where this happens -- the Sultan of Ternate Mosque, also known as the Old Mosque of Ternate -- has stood on the eastern side of Ternate Island since around 1606. Behind it, Mount Gamalama rises to 1,715 meters, the active volcano that forms the island's spine and the mosque's permanent backdrop.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/b/4/s/sultan-of-ternate-mosque-wp/wb4s-sultan-of-ternate-mosque-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sultan of Ternate Mosque: Five Tiers Toward Heaven https://qualla.com/sultan-of-ternate-mosque/ Photo credit Daniel Berthold, CC BY-SA 4.0. The mosque follows the vernacular tradition of Indonesian mosque architecture, shaped by the Javanese style that spread across the archipelago with Islam. Its most striking feature is the five-tiered roof of the main prayer hall -- originally thatched with sago palm, now covered ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/b/4/s/sultan-of-ternate-mosque-wp/wb4s-sultan-of-ternate-mosque-five-tiers-toward-heaven.mp3 0:06 2 full Sultan of Ternate Mosque: A Sultanate's Sacred Ground https://qualla.com/sultan-of-ternate-mosque/ Photo credit Si Gam, CC BY 4.0. The current building was likely constructed by Sultan Hamzah, the ninth sultan, around 1606. Scholars believe it replaced an earlier 16th-century mosque from the period when the Sultanate of Ternate was at the height of its power, exerting influence from Sulawesi to Mindanao. The...

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