Thursday 28 June 2012

Stone Sculpture

This is the stone sculpture in front of the gate of main Muara Jambi Temple. The sculpture was made from the hard rock materials, and not from the bricks itself.

Use all of the Styles

While taking pictures in Muara Jambi Temple, we may use all of our styles to make these pictures. It can be seen from the above pictures how the visitors used all of their styles.

Closer Look of Main Temple

This is the closer look of main temple of Muara Jambi. It seems that there are a lot of people taking pictures in the temple site. They used all of their styles to make picture in Muara Jambi Temple.

The Bricks of the Temple

This is the bricks of Muara Jambi Temple. It seems that the bricks of the temple are scattered in the temple site. It might be due to when the temple was found in the colonialism era, it had been spread out everywhere and need to reconstruct again if we want to see it as a complete temple.

Integrated History Tourism Area

This is the statement that Muara Jambi Temple has been declared as Integrated History Tourism Area and was signed by Indonesian President.

Information Center of Muara Jambi Temple

This is the building of information center of Muara Jambi Temple. Anyone needs information may ask about it in this place if they are open. Unfortunately when I was there, this office was closed.

Building for Some Remains

This building is close to the main temple of Muara Jambi Temple and used for shelters of some artefacts and sculpture and close to it there are some stupa from bricks. If we compare with temple in Java, temples in Muara Jambi mostly were made from bricks and not the hard stone.

Another Looks of Muara Jambi Temple

This is the view of Muara Jambi Temple if we see it closer. There are some trees around the temple and this is helpful to give the visitors of this site the cold feeling of the hot day in there.

The Main Temple of Muara Jambi Temple

This is the main temple of Muara Jambi Temple that we will find when we visit this site. This temple is located in the field with neat grass and seems like an unfinished building. This temple is small enough if we compare with the temple in another island such as in Java. This temple is constructed with red bricks and it has a different size compared to the contemporary bricks. The bricks of the temple are bigger if we compare with current bricks.

Muara Jambi Temple

The site of Muara Jambi Temple is located in the Village of Muara Jambi, Sub-District of Maro Sebo, District of Muara Jambi, Jambi Province. The width of the site is about 2612 hectare and span about 12 kilometres off the edge of Batanghari River. There are about 82 temples that are scattered in this temple site. This is the biggest temple site in Indonesia and the uniqueness of this site is the sacred area which are rounded by crossed ancient canal that relate between one temple with the other temple. This site is the heritage of ancient Malayan Kingdom with Mahayana Budhism background in the period of 8th century and continued until 14th century. The existence of Muara Jambi Temple at first was known from the report by British Officer named S.C Croke in the year of 1820 which was on duty to visit the remote areas along Batanghari River. He recorded that between the community settlement, there was opinion that Muara Jambi once upon a time become the capital city of an ancient kingdom. Crooke had the chance to see the bricks remain and the stone sculpture between the crowd of the jungle near the village.