The Hill of Love

THE HILL OF LOVE

tolerant monument

Bukit Kasih or The Hill of Love is located in the Kanonang village at Kawangkaon, 55 kilometers from Manado, North Sulawesi province, Indonesia. It was built in 2002 as a spritual center. This hill is a sulphur hill that still natural. Where religious followers from various faiths can gather , meditate and worsihp side by side in this lush and misty tropical hill. This hill is called the Hill of Love because it is where people from different religious can gather and worship side by side as a symbol of religious and peaceful harmony.

Five houses of worsip are here, a catholic church, a Christian church, a temple,a mosque, and Hindu temple built on the second peak. On the first peak is a 53meter fall whitecross which can be seen even from the boulevard beach in Manado. In addition, this place is believed to be the original plae where lived original place where lived original ancestors of the minahasan tribe,Toar and Lumimuut. Their faces are carved on the hillside beneath the second peak. In the same located there are Tolerant Monument, that sides consist of holy book quotation from 5 religion in Indonesia.

August 2011 , I went to this place. This place is awesome , only in this place you can see the people from various religion gather and worship. I’m really excited and having a fun to see a beautiful scenery too.