Prambanan Temple
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How it came to be
The Shiva temple at Prambanan was probably begun by Rakai Pikatan, and the Shivagrha inscription records its inauguration on 12 November 856. The central Shiva shrine stands 47 metres tall, and reliefs of the Ramayana run clockwise around its balustrades from the east entrance. The compound originally held 240 temples.
About 80 years after its consecration, the complex was abandoned in the middle of the 10th century. Cornelis Antonie Lons, an employee of the Dutch East India Company, reported on it in 1733, and in 1811 Colin Mackenzie, a surveyor working for Stamford Raffles, came upon the ruins.
The Dutch colonial government began reconstruction in 1918, and the rebuilt Shiva shrine was finished in 1953 and inaugurated by Sukarno. Prambanan was listed in 1991 together with the nearby Buddhist temples of Sewu, Lumbung and Bubrah. It was damaged in the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake.
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