Prambanan Temple

Prambanan Temple

Prambanan is the ancient Hindu temple complex in Central Java, Indonesia. and located 17 km east of Yogyakarta, on the road to Solo.
Prambana derived from Para and Brahmana. Para mean much, Brahmana are followers Hinduis. So the name was connected with the function of the temple that long time ago many Brahmins doing activity in the temple.

Rara Jonggrang Prambanan temple is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia, which is a holy place for Hindu religion.
There is no formal written record of the development of Prambanan. This temple was built by the family of the kings from the Sanjaya Dynasty in the 9th century, and is estimated to be built before the year 856 AD by King Rakai Pikatan, then the temple’s construction was continued and completed by Balitung king from the old Mataram kingdom.
One inscription is set in 856 AD who successfully read by Casparis stated that on Thursday the 11th of November, 856 performed the inauguration ceremony of the completion of making the statue of Shiva.

Brahma statue in Brahma Temple at Prampanan

In 1733 CA Lons an Englishman who rediscovered the ruins from the Prambanan Temple Rara Jonggrang buried by the eruption of Mount Merapi and start digging, then in 1902 the Van erp continue the digging activities and prepare for the restoration again, and finally by the government of Indonesia and helped by UNESCO, the enshrinement of this complex is restored to what it is today. Once restoration is complete, On 27 April 1991 President Suharto opened this temple.
Most of the main temple collapsed during a major earthquake in the 16th century. After-Dutch Java War, Java only briefly under British administration from 1811 to 1816. In 1811, a surveyor working for Thomas Stamford Raffles arrived at the ruins of Prambanan by chance. It is somewhat ironic that the very short period of British rule in Java led reinvention from the Borobudur and Prambanan. England, Raffles has no power in Java long enough to completely examine a lot of Prambanan. looting carried out by Dutch residents decorate their gardens with statues is priceless and local communities to take the foundation stones and their use as construction material.
In the Year 2006 has been an earthquake, and this makes the Prambanan temples were damaged. But the Government of Indonesia together with UNESCO has repaired again this Prambanan temple.

Legend of Roro Jonggrang
Prambanan temple is called Rara Jongrang because There is a legend that tells the origin of the temple. Once upon a time there was a king named Ratu Boko who lived in the palace is situated on a hill, south of Prambanan and can be seen from Prambanan.
Ratu Boko has a hobby that ate human flesh and has a very beautiful daughter. Named Rara Jongrang.
To the east from Prambanan there Paging empire. Son of the royal crown was named Badung Bondowoso.
Once Ratu Boko and Bandung Bondowongso war, then Bandung Bondowongso win in this battle. and kill the Ratu Boko. When entering the Bandung Bondowongso Keraton Ratu Boko, in time to see Rara Jongrang. Bandung Bondowongso immediately fell in love with him, because Rara Jongrang very beautiful. Bandung Bondowongso want to propose Rara,  But  Rara  confused, because Bandung has killed his Father and he was afraid to refuse because of Bandung is very powerful. so he received the proposal with one condition. Bandung have to make a thousand temples in one night. and Bandung began to make a thousand temples in one nightwith the help by the jinn, Bandung almost successfully created a thousand temples while still midnight. But Rara Jongrang not happy with it, then he asked for help from people around to make a fire and began to pound rice with mortar. arise as a result of light reddish dawn and cock began to crow woke to the sound because the mortar. Jinn who helped Bandung leave immediately because they thought it was sunrise. Bandung know the plans that done by  Rara Jongrang , Rara Jongrang then cursed into stone (statue) to complete a thousand temples. The statue is that we can see in the north of the Siwa temple .

Rara Jongrang

Prambanan Architecture

Page enshrinement Lara Jonggrang Prambanan Complex Consisting of:
Page up / page-sized center: 110 x 110 meters
Measuring the middle of page: 222 x 222 meters
Under Page size: 390 x 390 meters
Bottom of the page does not contain anything.
In the middle of page there are the ruins of temples ancillary, if the whole has been completely refurbished, there will be 224 temples.
Page top / center of the page there are 16 big and small temples. This is the most important page because it contains the main temples. where the main temples of the temple consists from two rows facing each other.
The first series is Candi Siwa, Brahma Temple and Vishnu, while the second row consists from temples Wahana is Nandi temple, temples Angsa, and the Temple of Garuda. on the north end and south end that separates the two rows of the main temple there are two temples namely: Apit north and south Apit Temple, while eight other smaller temples, which consists of 4 temples Screen, and 4 pieces Temple Angle / Pathok, plus 1 piece of the corner tower of the temple, so that the whole temple complex at  Jonggrang Lara Prambanan have 241 temples.