In the 2000s, a dozen of mosques named after Cheng Ho were established in major cities in Indonesia. Cheng Ho led seven times of expeditionary voyages across the Indian Ocean, including Southeast Asia, India, Arab, and East Africa in early 15th century. The Chinese Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist believers have worshipped Cheng Ho as their guardian god for the last hundreds of years. In the 21th century, Cheng Ho reemerged as the new symbol of the Chinese Muslims in Indonesia. The Chinese Muslim Community established the strategy of assimilation into the local Muslim societies since the 1960s in a serious manner, and the Cheng Ho Mosques were the embodiment of such strategy. The founders of the Cheng Ho Mosques argue that Cheng Ho and his crews played major roles in spreading Islam in Java. This discourse was drawn from the narratives of the two Chronicles found in the Chinese temples in Semarang and Cirebon(Kronik Tionghoa Semarang, Kronik Tionghoa Cirebon), which were allegedly found by a Dutch colonial officer in the 1920s. While the authenticity of the chronicles were not verified, the Cheng Ho Mosques were built based upon the narratives. By establishing the Cheng Ho Mosques, the Chinese Muslims try to create the image that Islam is not an exclusive religion for the Malay racial group, and the Chinese have contributed in forming the Islamic civilization in the archipelago.