Rara Jonggrang
Candi Rara Jonggrang
Candi Rara Jonggrang or Lara Jonggrang a village located in the Prambanan temple complex is the largest not only in Indonesia but also in Southeast Asia. It was located on the island of Java, approximately 20 kilometers east of Yogyakarta, 40 kilometers west of Surakarta and 120 kilometers south of Semarang, right on the border between the provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarta.
This temple is built around the year 850 BC Not long after being built,
this temple began to be abandoned.
Then in the year 1855, Izerman began to clean up and move some rocks and soil
from the temple room.
Candi Rara Jonggrang now is a footprint that is protected by UNESCO, starting
from 1991.
This temple complex consists of eight units and the main temple temple exceeds
250 units of small size Siva temple in the middle contains four rooms, with one
room in each direction of the wind. The first contains a statue god Siva
as three meters, with three other statue-figurine contains a smaller size, the
statue Durga, magic or god Siva's wife, Agastya, teachers, and Ganesa, puteranya.
Nandini
Two other temples dedicated to the god Vishnu and Brahma Dewa each facing to the north and south. In addition, several other small temples dedicated to the cow Nandini, vehicle god Siva, the Angsa, vehicle Dewa Brahma, and the Garuda, vehicle god Vishnu.
Carved relief in the temple twenty describe this novel Ramayana. However,
the versions differed with Ramayana Ancient Java, but similar to the
Ramayana story is revealed through oral tradition.
On 27 May 2006, an earthquake with a strength of 5.9 on the Richter scale (while
the United States of America Geology Surveys reported the strength of the
earthquake as 6.2 on the Richter scale) over the area of Bantul, and surrounding
areas.. This earthquake caused the death of many people and the extreme
devastation on many buildings here, including the Prambanan temple complex,
especially Brahma temple.
