Temple Pringapus Temanggung City Central Java Indonesia

Temple Pringapus Temanggung City Central Java Indonesia
Another tourist attraction in County Temanggung interesting places to visit is the Temple Pringapus. As other temples, temple Pringapus not only offer tours of archeology, but also historical tours, cultural tours and educational tours.

As the name implies, this temple is located in the Village District of Ngadirejo Pringsurat about 22 km from the west Lauta City of Temanggung. He's already quite old, which have been built in 850 and completed two years later.

Hindu statues patterned Siwaistis. When examined, the structure has the form of a replica Mahameru which became a symbol of the abode of the gods. This can be evidenced from the presence of ornaments antefiq and Hapsara-hapsari reliefs depicting the demi gods.Pringapus temple reminiscent of temples in Dieng Plateau, Wonosobo and Gedongsongo Temple in the village temple Bandungan District of Semarang District.

The shape is almost the same, the third Incidentally temple complex is located in the adjacent area, so it has a lot in common, in both form and culture of the society at that time. Gedongsongo temple complex in Northern Temple Pringapus and Dieng temple complex on the western side.

Characteristics TEMPLE
As temples in Dieng and Gedongsongo, the entire front wall of the Temple Pringapus in an open condition only tertutup.Bagaimana west wall, serves as a doorway. The shape resembles the altar and looks dashing. On the left and right side of the door there is a beautiful reliefs, depicting a pair of gods from heaven.
On the inside, visitors can see large Nandi, Lord Shiva which he rested. High Nandi exceed the height doors, it is estimated that made erlebih before the door of development process.

In contrast to the temple that is not visible Gondosuli shape Pringapus temple reliefs are still intact. Unique characteristics make many foreign tourists come here, mainly from the Netherlands, Belgium and the US. During the holidays, the place is visited by tourists from different areas including school children.

Pringapus temple was first mentioned in the list Junghuhn ruins of temples of Java, which is based on image Hoepermans. After that, the image is updated by Brandes, Van Erp (1909) and Knebel (1911).
There is also linked to existing Perot temple nearby (about 300 meters), which collapsed due to a major storm in 1907 (now only visible foundation course). Four years earlier, a number of foreign archaeologists conducted a study of the temple Perot and compose the image.

MYSTERY Legacy TEMPLE

When is Temple Pringapus built? There is mention of 850, 852 and even some are estimated in 900 or later. According to an archaeologist, Djulianto Susanto (Determining pertanggalan Temple; 2003), until now there has been no definitive conclusion regarding when a temple was built or established. From various archaeological data, none of which imply a chronicle information accurately.

Therefore, given the archaeologists ertanggalan always imbued the words "possibility (big" or "expected founded umpteenth century in the kingdom so". Not "was established in the year by the king so-so".

Dutch archaeologist EB Vogler been doing research on the above door decoration candid when makara's political history kingdoms in Central Java. The result is mapped into five periods pertanggalan namely:

a. Period I, the period before the year 650. He estimated that, when it already exists ang building is made of materials that can be easily damaged and weathered so signs architectural nothing left anymore.
b. Period II (650-760), which occurred during the reign of King Sanjaya of the Hindu Mataram Kingdom. The building style influenced by the Pallava architecture that originated from South India. Temple buildings of this period was already damaged, and not easily identified.
c. Period III (760-812), during the Sailendra dynasty. Examples of the building is the temple of Borobudur, Pawon, Mendut, Kalasan and cider.
d. Period IV (8120 \ -928), Foreign influence especially Chandiman style (India) started enriching elements of the temple. Examples include Prambanan, sariwanm Plaosan and Ngawen.
e. V period, which lasted from 928 until the end of the Hindu-Javanese. The building is an outgrowth of earlier styles. The building of this period began to be enriched with elements of art in East Java, especially when the form. Examples include temple building Pringapus, Sembodro, Ratna and Heroine.
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