Visiting Chicken Church, An Odd And Mysterious Place


Chicken Church is located in Bukit Rhema , one of the hills that are in the ranks of Borobudur , precisely in Hamlet Gombong , Kembang Limus , District Borobudur , Magelang . According to the surrounding community , Chicken Church had been left unfinished since the 1990s . 

This building was once used as a residence , before becoming a church . The building is decorated with beautiful ornaments and vintage , there are odd shaped ladder to climb to the top floor , a spacious open-plan room , as a place to worship like churches . While at the bottom , there is plenty of room measuring 2 × 1 square meter with no windows and doors . Still unclear , building insulation room on the bottom floor for what it serves .


Daniel Alamsjah , owner of Chicken Curch straighten that the building is not in the form of chicken , but the pigeons ! Daniel told her about the reason he founded Chicken Church . Initially , Daniel got a message from God to build a house of worship in the form of a dove . Because Daniel Christianity , many thought he build a church . 

He asserted that the building was not a church . But , a house of prayer for those who believe in God . In 1989 while traveling Magelang (where his wife's family originated ) , Daniel gained inspiration from his dream . He saw beautiful scenery in the hills exactly the same dream. He prayed all night there and got a revelation from God that he should build a house of prayer in that place.