Dieng Tample

Administratively Dieng Plateau with a height of approximately 2088 m ASL with an average temperature of 13-17 C, are located at the district Banjarnegara and Wonosobo regency, Central Java Province. Dieng Plateau is a plateau formed by volcanic crater that has been dead. The form clearly visible from the plains of the crater that is located in the center surrounded by hills. Before becoming the plain, this area is a large lakewhich is now living the marks of a lake. Traces of the crater at the moment, still occasionally reveals volcanic activity, such as the crater Sikidang. Beside that also volcanic activity, which in the form of gas / steam geothermal and flowed through the pipes with large diameters, and placed at ground level to go to certain locations that were well away from residential locations of population and utilized for Geothermal Power Plant. With topographical conditions, beautiful scenery and heritage sites and artifacts in the form of temples, so the Dieng plateau has potential as a place of recreation and heritage objects as well as an interesting history.


Dieng plateau is considered to be a place that has a mysterious power as a place bersemayamnya spirits of the ancestors, so this place is considered sacred. Dieng Dihyang derived from the word meaning place of the spirits of ancestors. There are several temple complex in this area, the Dieng temple complex built in the Hindu religion, a relic statue of Lord Shiva, Vishnu, Agastya, Ganesha and other Hindu-characterized other. The temples are located in the Dieng plateau are given names associated with the story or puppet characters in a seashell Purwa Mahabharata, Arjuna's temple, for example, Gatotkaca temple, temples Dwarawati, Bima temple, the temple Semar, Sembadra temple, temples and temple Puntadewa Heroine.

Dieng in The Morning

The name of the temple has nothing to do with the function of building and estimated the given name of the temple after the temple was abandoned or not used anymore. People who built the temple can not be ascertained, because the information contained in the 12 stone inscription which mentions none of who builds.

Dieng apparent from the above

From the stone inscriptions found, citing figures saka 731 years (809 AD) and AD 1210, of this information can be used as an indication that the Hindu holy sites are used less than four centuries. From the architectural side of the temples in the complex is somewhat different than the general temples in Java, especially Bima temple. Forms part of Bima temple architectural style is a fusion of North India and South India. North Indian architectural styles appear at the top called Sikhara, while the architecture of South India shows that there are decorative ornaments Kudu heads as the god who looked out of the booth window

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