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Hinduism sacred sites in Indonesia
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Besakih temple
Besakih, Bali, Indonesia
On the southwestern slope of Mount Agung, a complex of twenty-three temples rises in six terraces toward the holiest mountain in Bali....
Candi Belahan, Java
Bulusari, East Java, Indonesia
On the wooded eastern slope of Mount Penanggungan in East Java lies Candi Belahan, an eleventh-century royal bathing place....
Candi Jolotundo, Java
Kedungudi, East Java, Indonesia
Carved into the western slope of Mount Penanggungan around 977 CE, Jolotundo is the oldest bathing temple in East Java....
Candi Sukuh
Berjo, Central Java, Indonesia
High on the western slope of Mount Lawu stands a temple unlike any other in Java: a truncated stone pyramid rising over terraces, carved with images of Bhima the divine...
Mt. Abang
Abang Batu Dinding, Bali, Indonesia
Rising on the eastern rim of the Batur caldera, Mount Abang is Bali's third-highest mountain and one of its sacred peaks, in legend a fragment of the cosmic Mahameru...
Mt. Agung
Kecamatan Kubu, Bali, Indonesia
Mount Agung is the highest point in Bali and, in Balinese cosmology, the dwelling of the gods and the island's Mount Meru, the axis of the universe....
Mt. Batur
Bangli, Bali, Indonesia
An active volcano rising from a sacred crater lake, Mount Batur is the second holiest mountain in Bali and the divine source of the island's water....
Mt. Bromo, Java
Cemoro Lawang, East Java, Indonesia
An active cone rising from a vast volcanic Sea of Sand, Mount Bromo, named for Brahma, is the sacred mountain of the Tenggerese, a Hindu people of East Java....
Mt. Gede, Java
Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
An active volcano in the West Java highlands, Mount Gede is a kabuyutan in Sundanese belief, a sacred dwelling of ancestral guardian spirits....
Mt. Lawu, Java
Karanganyar, Central Java, Indonesia
Gunung Lawu rises on the Central and East Java border, a stratovolcano named among the eighteen sacred mountains of old Java....
Mt. Rinjani
West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Gunung Rinjani is Indonesia's second-highest volcano, sacred to both the Sasak people of Lombok and Balinese Hindus....
Mt. Salak, Java
Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia
Gunung Salak is an eroded volcano southwest of Jakarta, sanctified in Sundanese tradition since the era of the Pajajaran kingdom....
Mt. Semeru
Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia
Gunung Semeru, called Mahameru, is the highest mountain on Java and the most sacred to Indonesian Hindus....
Parahyangan Agung Jagatkarta Temple, Java
Bogor, West Java, Indonesia
Pura Parahyangan Agung Jagatkarta stands at the foot of sacred Mount Salak near Bogor, the largest Hindu temple in West Java and second-largest in Indonesia after Pura...
Prambanan Temple
Bokoharjo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Rising from the Javanese plain like fingers pointing toward the divine, Prambanan is Indonesia's largest Hindu temple complex—a stone cosmos built for the Trimurti: Brahma...
Pura Luhur Lempuyang, Bali, Indonesia
Sega, Bali, Indonesia
Pura Penataran Agung Lempuyang sits on the middle slope of Mount Lempuyang in East Bali, the principal gathering temple of one of the island's oldest and holiest complexes....
Pura Tirta Empul Temple
Malet Seri Batu, Bali, Indonesia
Pura Tirta Empul is one of Bali's principal tirta (holy water) temples and a continuously active Balinese Hindu sanctuary at Tampaksiring....
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