Prambanan Temple

The largest Hindu temple in Indonesia is Prambanan. Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple in Indonesia religion. Prambanan temple is located between the provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarta. This temple dedicated to the worship of his day 3 gods, namely Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva. Siwaghra is the original name of this temple meaningful home for the god Shiva. This temple located amidst gods god Shiva shiwa indicating preferred in earlier times.

This temple complex is located in Prambanan subdistrict, Sleman district and sub-district Prambanan, Klaten District, approximately 17 kilometers northeast of Yogyakarta, 50 kilometers southwest of Surakarta and 120 kilometers south of Semarang, just on the border between Central Java and the

Because of the grandeur of this temple, Prambanan temple serves as the great kingdom of Mataram, convening a variety of important royal ceremonies. At the height of its power, historians suspect that the brahmin priests and hundreds of students gathered outside the court and inhabit this temple to study the Vedas and performing various Hindu rituals and ceremonies. While the center of the kingdom of Mataram kingdom or palace supposedly located somewhere in the Prambanan Plain near Kewu.

The temple complex
The entrance to the building complex is located on the four corners of the wind direction, but the direction toward building is to the east, the main entrance of this temple is the east gate. Prambanan temple complex consists of:
3 temple Trimurti: Shiva temple, Vishnu, and Brahma
3 Temple Vehicle: Nandi temple, Garuda, and Geese
2 Apit Temple: located between rows of Trimurti temples and temples rides in the north and south
4 Temple color: located at the 4 corners of the wind right behind the entrance to the inner courtyard or the core