Candi Singosari

Site common name	Candi Singosari
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Singosari
State	East Java
Country	Indonesia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : -7.887785 Long : 112.663881

History of production	King Kritanagar, the last king of Singosari Dynasty died in 1292. Several temples for embedding his mortal remain were built, including Candi Singosari and Candi Jawi.
Art	The temple of Singosari is of an extraordinary arrangement. The central temple is the non-enterable solid one placed on the top of the high platform. At the platform there exist four enterable sanctum providing for Shiva (East), Agastaya (south), Ganesha (west) and Mahishasuramardani (north) This iconographic program is conceived by following the model from Candi Parambanan in Central Javanese Art. The style of the temple is of the common type of Eastern Javanese architecture. The temple composes of the square body punctuated by the false doors topped by Kala faces. The superstructure comprises the double bands alternated by the row of miniature temples.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Eastern Javanese Art, Singosari Dynasty
Age	13th-14th century A.D.
Religion	Brahmanism-Hinduism
Sect	Shaivite

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali