Jumat, 04 Januari 2013

Candi Wringinlawang





The temple is located in Wringinlawang Wringinlawang Hamlet, Jati Village Market, District Trowulan, Mojokerto, exactly 11 km from Mojokerto toward Jombang. It is said that first near the temple there is a huge banyan tree that this temple called Candi Wringinlawang (in Javanese, Wringin means banyan, mace meaning door).
Not much is known about the development and function of this temple. In this paper Raffles in 1815, this ancient building known as the Gate Teak Paser. The name is likely related to the name of the village where the temple is located. In a paper in 1907 Knebel, gate is called "Gate Wringinlawang. '
Wringinlawang a temple while, the gate without a roof. Candi moment is normally the outer gate of the building complex. Given its shape, is thought to be an archway gate Wringinlawang to one building complex in the city of Majapahit.

Wringinlawang gate has undergone refurbishment undertaken from 1991 to 1995. Overall the building facing east-west is made of red brick. The foundations of a rectangular gate with size 13 x 11.50 m. Before restoration the southern gate is still intact, standing upright with a height of 15.50 m., While the northern hemisphere only remaining 9 yards.

On the left and right of the stairs up into the gap between the two parts of the gate there is a wall about 2 m tall. The gap between the two parts of the gate is wide enough. It did not look or relief carving on the temple walls. Tiered pyramidal roof of the temple with a square peak. The roof and ornate pattern inverted pyramid on the roof of the temple is similar to the one in the temple Bajangratu.