Visitors
After president Barack Obama and his wife visited Istiqal Mosque in November 2010, about 20 foreign visitors came to see the mosque everyday. They mostly come from Europe. The foreign dignitaries that had visited Istiqlal mosque are; Bill Clinton President of United States in 1994, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Prince Charles of United Kingdom, Li Yuanchao the vice chairman of Communist Party of China, President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, Heinz Fischer the President of Austria, Jens Stoltenberg the Prime Minister of Norway, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2012.
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