Muara Takus Temple Complex
Brick-and-stone Buddhist temple complex beside the Kampar Kanan River, famed for its ancient stupa forms.
The World’s Sacred Places
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Brick-and-stone Buddhist temple complex beside the Kampar Kanan River, famed for its ancient stupa forms.
Historic stone temple in Candirenggo associated with the Singhasari kingdom and its religious heritage.
East Javanese temple in Tumpang with narrative reliefs reflecting Hindu and Buddhist religious heritage.
Historic temple in Prigen associated with the Singhasari royal world and a combined Hindu–Buddhist religious setting.
Extensive brick-built Buddhist archaeological landscape along the Batanghari River associated with historical learning and worship.
Early Hindu temple group on the Dieng Plateau, among the surviving monuments of classical Java.
Mountain temple ensemble on the slopes of Mount Ungaran with surviving early Hindu sanctuaries.
Highland Hindu sanctuary on Mount Lawu, visited for pilgrimage and notable late-Javanese religious terraces.
Unusual terraced Hindu sanctuary on Mount Lawu, known for its distinctive reliefs and late classical Javanese forms.
Extensive East Javanese Hindu temple complex associated with the Kadiri, Singhasari and Majapahit cultural periods.
Historic Buddhist temple ensemble east of Prambanan, recognised for its paired principal shrines and ornamental stonework.
Early Buddhist temple east of Borobudur housing a celebrated large seated Buddha image and flanking bodhisattvas.