Minggu, 28 Desember 2008

Songgoriti Temple


Songgoriti indeed have a motorcycle-taxi tour is enough hot water in the famous Stone of the administrative area of the city, even in East Java. But who suspected that the object other than tourism hot water, there is also a cultural tourist attraction in the form of a temple called the Temple Singosari. Honesty is only tens of years living in Malang I do not think at all if there is a temple in the area of tourism is hot water. If not from a book that cultural tourism obtained during my visit to the Temple southpaw, may be up to this time I will be the same once I will never know its.
Submerged in the density of visitors tour songgoriti hot water, the existence of this temple is less known / sought by the visitors. Not that strange considering the conditions of the temple can be lived half, several statues and reliefs that there is no longer intact. Plus the size of which is not only 14:36 x 10:10 meters and 2:44 meters high, this temple can be hidden from the fence of the hotel frequently used dijejali and four-wheeled vehicles.
* This Venue Temple Songgoriti actually located by the valley that separates between the slopes of Gunung Gungung Arjuna with the slope Kawi. This temple is built over the hot springs in the past is believed to cure various diseases. Buildings made of stone temple andesit, while pondasinya of bricks. The architectural building consists of legs, body and roof of the temple, while up to now can be seen only foot of the temple and some of the body temple East, North and West. Temple Songgoriti period of development can not yet known, but suspected the temple comes from the government Pu Sindok, namely, the movement of power from Central Java, East Java, to around a century IX - X BC.
Seen from the architecture is very simple, Temple Songgoriti classified as the oldest temple in East Java and have ornaments berlanggam Central Java. Building the temple that left (East, North, West) has a niche-niche as a place of statues. East is a niche where the statue of Ganesha, who live arcanya most, namely the stomach and legs. Niche northern arcanya already lost, while the niche next to the West, arcanya is not attached again in the niche, but still dilingkungan temple. This statue is a statue Agastya, who in the Hindu religion is one of seven ecclesiastic the spread of Hindu religion in Southeast Asia and Java.
Note the temple Songgoriti first made by Van I Jsseldijk in the year 1799, and then by Rigg in the year 1849 and Brumund in the year 1863. In the year 1902 Knebel do inventarisasipada temple site Songgoriti and continued with improvements (renovation) in the year 1921. Temple Songgoriti that we see now is a result of renovations in the years 1936-1946. At the time of the renovation found four stone box which contains the commemorative-Yoni of bronze and gold, currencies, and gold scrap with the name of the deity.
From these findings, and the statue Agastya, shows that this temple is Siwaistis. The functions of the temple Songgoriti can not yet known with certainty, it is estimated that this place is a place of worship / ceremony particular, given the room in the temple, there is hot water source that contains sulfur, which can cure skin diseases. Until now, the source of water is used as a source of water for bathing, which is situated not far from the temple Songgoriti.
What's the last, the Office of Tourism City of Stone in 2005, will apply to the provincial government aid budget of Rp 1 billion. Funds to renovate it and arrange the construction of the temple severely damaged, given the high cost of making a replica, and more than 25% of building the temple is no longer intact.

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