The Indonesian Chicken Church

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Does it sound like a house of worship for poultry to visit? It is actually Bukit Rhema and it's an abandoned church in Java, Indonesia. A man had a dream in 1989 to build a prayer house and he started building it in the 1900's but encountered both money problems and resistance from the locals, so the church construction was never actually finished. The building started to deteriorate but then was used in a couple of movies and became a tourist attraction, so now it has both a cafe and a souvenir shop. I have no idea why the man dreamed of such an unusually shaped "church" but he said the dream was from God.