KATEDRAL JAKARTA - CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION (PELINDUNG DIANGKAT KE SURGA)

Pembuat/Maker: G. Verschueren, Tongeren, Belgium 1988

Bengkel Verschueren di Belgia didirikan oleh kakek dari pemilik saat ini dari Verschueren Orgelbouw, Léon F.M. Verschueren III, sebagai perusahaan anak di bawah kepemimpinan putra keduanya Emile pada tahun 1937. Pada tahun 1951 operasi Belgia menjadi independen. Pada tahun 1998 berakhir aktivitasnya dengan kematian George. Organ transept ini telah dibayar dengan hasil dari kampanye untuk hadiah ulang tahun untuk Pastor Kurris, pastor pembangunan yang merawat restorasi dari katedral.

A few streets away from Gereja Immanuel is the modern Istiqlal

Mosque, an immense, many-columned white building, said to have

been the largest mosque in South-East Asia for many years. Over the

road, and dwarfed by, the mosque is the Roman Catholic Cathedral of

Jakarta. This attractive and well-proportioned building, in a traditional

gothic design P. Dijkmans, is quite large in it's own right. The church,

and other old churches, feature in a book, Gereja-gereja tua di Jakarta,

by A. Heuken SJ and published in Jakarta by Yayasan Cipta Loka Caraka,

2003. The ISBN 979-97229-4-2 will find it for you in a number of

libraries in Australia.

Below a massive circular window, there is a choir gallery over the great

west door and once there was a pipe organ in this balcony. I was unable

to locate information on this organ, of which no sign remains.

However, on it's own elevated platform in the south transept sits an

attractive organ by George Verschueren of Tongeren, Belgium, built in

1988. The Verschueren workshop in Belgium was founded by the

grandfather of the current proprietor of Verschueren Orgelbouw, Léon

F.M. Verschueren III, as a filial company in 1937 under leadership of his

second son Emile. In 1951 the Belgian operations became

independent. In 1998 it ended its activities by the death of George. This

transept organ has been paid for with the proceeds from the campaign

for an anniversary gift for Father Kurris, the building pastor who took

care of the restoration from the cathedral.

Sumber utama: Rudi van Straten - Senior-specialist Sounding Heritage, NL

Dikembangkan dan diteruskan dengan persetujuan Rudi van Straten, dalam rangka kerja sama program Sounding Heritage Indonesia

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