Prambanan temple complex

The United Nations Science, Education and Cultural Organization has recognized Prambanan Temple Complex of Indonesia as a World Cultural Heritage in 1991.

Prambanan is a Hindu temple complex in Central Java, about 18 km east of Yogyakarta city. Prambana was recognized by Unesco as a world cultural heritage in 1991 due to the unique elements of architecture and cultural significance of the temple.

Prambanan Temple was built to worship the god Trimurti . Trimurti is the three supreme gods of Hinduism, including the Bram ham god of creation, the god of maintaining Vishnu and the god of destroying Shiva. Until now, Prambanan remains the largest Hindu temple in Southeast Asia.

According to Shivagrha's record, Prambanan probably began to be built in 850 under King Rakai Pikatan of the kingdom of Medang. The first temple in this complex is to worship Shiva. The goal is to show that the Sanjaya family has renounced Buddhism to return to Hindu.

It is thought that the Prambanan temple complex was built to compete with the Borobudur temple complexes built during the Sailendra dynasty. The reason is because archaeologists during the study found the Shiva symbol in the main aspect of the main temple.

The population of Prambanan temple was built during the reign of Medang, but was most actively built under King Daksa and King Tulodong. Around the main tower are hundreds of lower towers, in Indonesian language called Perwara .

Prambanan is considered the royal temple of the kingdom of Medang . There have been many religious and sacrificial rituals here. Scholars and archaeologists over the course of the study believe that in the heyday of the kingdom there were thousands of Brahmin monks and their disciples living in this temple complex. Medang's city center and court are located in Prambanan plain. By 930, Medang's political center was moved to East Java by King Mpu Sindok, so until now historians have not found the exact cause of the capital move, but it is presumably due to the volcano. Merapi in Prambanan north erupted, some hypotheses were attributed to war . since then the Prambanan temple has been abandoned and damaged over time.

The whole population of Prambanan temple consists of many large and small temples with a main tower of 47m high. By the 16th century, a major earthquake in Indonesia caused the main tower and many small tower temples to collapse. Because there was no funding and no longer had the same importance as the heyday, the local government had abandoned this ruins.

In 1811, under the reign of the United Kingdom, explorer Collin Mackenzie accidentally came to Prambanan and discovered the ruined population. Immediately the government of his kingdom had explored the entire ruins. However, after that, the area was not restored but was also stolen by Dutch colonialists and British colonies of the temple's reliefs in their own garden.

By 1880, many enthusiastic archaeologists came to explore and study the area of ​​ruins, but these actions only made the temple complex more known and more stolen artifacts. It was not until 1918 that the mediation and renovation was really started, and by 1930 this work began to be standardized with the help of the international community. But because so many stone works, the reliefs were taken away so the restoration could not be completed. Until now, many to the small tower has not been restored, only the old foundations remain visible on the ground.

The 2006 earthquake caused the temple area to be seriously damaged and now closed for reconstruction to avoid danger to visitors.