Java Album
Candi Sari from the Northeast
Location: Bendan, Tirtomartani, Kalasan, Sleman, D.I. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
15 Km from the center of Yogyakarta
Buddhist temple from the 8th-9th century.
Description: Candi Sari is a large rectangular building facing east.
Candi Sari probably had an important porch on the eastern part (traces of it are still visible on the eastern wall).
Walls are divided into panels and adorned with divinities from the Buddhist pantheon.
There are windows for both floors around the temple.
The cornice running along the walls in the three rooms suggests that there once was a wooden floor dividing each room vertically. The upper floor was reached via the southern room by a wooden staircase - there were thus 6 rooms rather than 3.
Candi Sari is thought to be a Buddhist monastery or vihara with three praying rooms with bronze statues in each chambers of the first floor and perhaps a library or rooms for keeping sacred items on the upper floor. The building might have been part of a larger complex in its time.
Candi Sari from the Northeast
Location: Bendan, Tirtomartani, Kalasan, Sleman, D.I. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
15 Km from the center of Yogyakarta
Buddhist temple from the 8th-9th century.
Description: Candi Sari is a large rectangular building facing east.
Candi Sari probably had an important porch on the eastern part (traces of it are still visible on the eastern wall).
Walls are divided into panels and adorned with divinities from the Buddhist pantheon.
There are windows for both floors around the temple.
The cornice running along the walls in the three rooms suggests that there once was a wooden floor dividing each room vertically. The upper floor was reached via the southern room by a wooden staircase - there were thus 6 rooms rather than 3.
Candi Sari is thought to be a Buddhist monastery or vihara with three praying rooms with bronze statues in each chambers of the first floor and perhaps a library or rooms for keeping sacred items on the upper floor. The building might have been part of a larger complex in its time.