TEMPLE PRAMBANAN

TEMPLE PRAMBANAN

              Prambanan Temple is often called Rara Jonggrang or Lara Jonggrang located in the Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia. This temple is located on the island of Java, approximately 20 km east of Yogyakarta, 40 km west of Surakarta and 120 km south of Semarang,
just on the border between the provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarta. Candi Rara Jonggrang located in the village of Prambanan.
               Prambanan was built in about the year 850 Masehi and has many parts of the temple, renovated, using new stones, because many of the original stones were stolen or reused elsewhere. Now, this temple is a protected site by UNESCO since 1991.

        Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple in Southeast Asia, the main building height is 47m.Kompleks this temple consists of 8 main shrine or temple and more than 250 temples called Trisakti kecil.Tiga main temple and offer it to the hyang Trimurti: Shiva the Destroyer Batara, Batara Vishnu the Preserver and the Pencipta.Candi Batara Brahma Shiva in the middle, contains four rooms, one room in every direction of the wind. While the first contains a statue of Shiva Batara as high as three meters, the other three statues contain a smaller size, the statue of Durga, Shiva Batara sakti or wife, Agastya, teacher, and Ganesh, Durga putranya.Arca also known as Rara or Lara / Loro Jongrang (slender virgin) by the local population. For details see the article Loro Jonggrang.
Two other temples dedicated to Vishnu Batara, which faces to the north and the other Batara dedicated to Brahma, who is facing to the south. In addition there are several other small temples dedicated to the cow Nandini, vehicle Batara Shiva, the Goose, vehicle Batara Brahma, and the Garuda, Vishnu Batara vehicle.
Then twenty-reliefs around the edge of the temple depict the Ramayana epic. The version described here is different from the Old Javanese Ramayana Kakawin, but similar to the Ramayana story is revealed through oral traditions. In addition, the temple complex is surrounded by more than 250 temples vary in size and are called ancillary. In the Prambanan temple complex there is also a museum that holds the object's history, including the god Shiva Linga stone, a symbol kesuburun.
(From the Indonesian Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)