LAWANG SEWU, SEMARANG – | Peter Velthoen

NIS 1904 windows at the main stairs
Kereta Api held a workshop on railway preservation together with Dutch experts and with local railfans attending.
window details main stairs NIS office building Semarang 17 Oct 2014
Lawang Sewu cast iron stairs with name of the iron works at Den Haag
Demarang, NIS main building seen from the back
Gallery at the back off the building

Lawang Sewu Semarang is an old office building in Semarang, Central Java, which is the office of the former Nederlands-Indische Maatschappij or NIS Spoorweg. Built in 1904 and completed in 1907. The monument is located on the roundabout that used to be called Wilhelminaplein.

Local people call it Lawang Sewu (Thousand Doors) because the building looks like having many doors. In fact the windows are high and wide and look like doors from a distance.