Gua Maria Teluk Dalam - Pualau Bintan
Caves's Saint Mary in Bintan Island
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| Cave's Saint Mary (photo by Sunarto Stephanus) |
Trikora – Teluk Dalam Berakit, Bintan Regency.
Distance to the location from Bintan Resorts to Teluk Dalam is about less than 1 hour and from Tanjung Pinang city less than 35 minutes by land trasportation.
The Saint Mary cave ‘s at first time in the 1960s a supposedly haunted places and by immigrants from East Flores tribe who live around the cave to put a statue of Santa Maria in between the rocks and big trees.
Since it time ago, it has evolved into a place where Catholic pilgrimage around the island of Bintan. And every month of Rosario May and October visited by people from different areas of the island of Bintan, Batam and the surrounding areas and also from Singapore.
Several years ago by the bishop of Mgr Hilarius Moa Nurak SVD, inaugurated the renovation of the Marian Bay area in and surrounding a small church.
Information:
Contact Pastoral Tanjung Pinang
Jl. Diponegoro No 12 Tanjung Pinang
Pulau Bintan - Kepulauan Riau
Bintan Island
Phone/fax +62771-21386
Fax +62771-20096
Fax +62771-20096
Gallery photo
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| small church at behind of the cave (photo by Sunarto Stephanus) |
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| inside of church |
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| inside of church |
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| saint Mary community on a visit the cave in 2010 |
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| a place for mass service around the cave |
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| bene cantat bis orat = who sings well prays twice |
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| sancta Maria ora pro nobis..amen |
