Muaro Temple - Jambi

About Muaro Temple

Village Muaro Muara District of Sebo is the place / location Muaro temple, located 2 km northeast of the city of Jambi or 20 minutes by ground vehicles over the bridge Batang 2. This region contained Astano Temple, Temple High, Gumpung Temple, Twin Temple Stone, Gedong, Kedato temple and temple Koto Mahligai. In terms of the architect, the building is the Buddhist culture in the fourth and fifth centuries . One of the statues in the temple Gumpung invention exhibit many similarities with Prajnaparamita statue of Singosari era. a few meters from the lake temple bathing place of the king who named the lake Rajo.

High Temple group is located approximately 200 meters northeast of the Temple Gumpung. The temple measuring 75 x 92 meters of the fence since the year 1979-1988. Its main gate is located at the eastern side. In the courtyard there is a group of Temple High Parent temple and six ancillary temples (appearance)

In addition there is the brick floor in front of the main temple which has a square floor plan size of 16 x 16 meters. After the fence, now has two terraces Parent temple and body tends to shrink up.

Then there are six temples again that is only part of the foundation and a little leg only. A number of important findings that can be found on the High Temple group is a piece of iron and bronze objects, ancient glass, stone statue fragments, fragments of ceramic-style general household appliance from china from 9-14 century AD and hundreds of inscribed bricks, marked, as well as hundreds of brick stamped. And letters on the brick show letters written Pallawa (Prenagari).

Complexed Muaro this temple, there is a stone Twin Temple, located about 250 meters to the southeast Temple High physical bounded by a fence that is rectangular with a size that is not the same on each side, but it can be roughly calculated the 64 X 54 square meters and contained pole structure buildings made of wood and floors are made of brick. Chinese gong been found by archaeologists. Bronze gong derived from Chinese characters is touted as the gong of war, which is now stored in the Museum of Edinburgh. And there is also the main temple, measuring 11.5 x 11.5 meters in front ancillary temples (viewer). Parent temple has a staircase in the eastern part.

Then Gedong which consists of two parts, namely gedong 1 and 2. Both are adjacent gedong located approximately 150 meters. The temple is located about 1,450 meters from east Temple Kedaton, both have a staircase structure in the east. Gedong 1 very unique, dibangunan the square is often found off the archaeological findings such as currency Kepeng of China as many as 161 pieces, religious equipment, brick-profile, bow brick, brick scratched and Ceramic China as well as local pottery (pottery). Most of the money is in a state of wear and hard to read. Most of the letters are from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), Southern Tang dynasty (937-976 AD), and the Sung dynasty (960-1280 AD). On location Gedong there is also a statue Jagopati (Arca Warrior)

No less astonishing, until the beginning of the 21st century AD, the temple Muaro our site has been identified approximately 110 buildings of the temple which is comprised of approximately 39 groups of temples. The temple building is peninggalah Malay kingdom to kingdom of Srivijaya, the Buddhist Malay cultural backgrounds. Estimated temples location historical sites Muaro Jambi temple was built since the 4th century AD, one among a group of temples are Gumpung Temple.

Location group Gumpung Temple located at 500 meters to the right and down the river Batang. Gumpung Temple is the second largest temple after temple Kedaton. Gumpung Temple composed of brick buildings of various shapes and sizes. And here ever discovered archaeological objects managed in found by the archaeologists. Gumpung Temple restricted group fence that form a square that has the size of the overall length of 604.40 meters. Overall width Gumpung temple area is 229.50 m2. Temple Gumpung have ancillary temples (viewer) of 5 pieces, which is not really clear form, 4 pieces 2 pieces of the gate and the estimated former pond. Gumpung derived from naming a menapo Gumpung of the surrounding community, in the Malay language means flat or broken or cut off above.