Muaro Jambi Temple

Muaro Jambi temple is located in Muaro Jambi Village, Muaro Sebo District, Jambi. Located 2 km north-east of Jambi city or 20 minutes by ground vehicles through Batanghari 2 Bridge . At this region contained Astano Temple, Tinggi Temple, Gumpung Temple, Kembar Batu Temple, Gedong Temple, Kedato Temple and Koto Mahligai Temple. In terms of the architect, the building is the Buddhist culture in IV and V century. One of the statues in the Gumpung temple findings show that many characteristics in common with the statues Prajnaparamita of the period Singosari. A few meters from the temple, lake that bathing place of the kings called lake Rajo.

Group of the Tinggi Temple is located approximately 200 meters northeast of Gumpung Temple . Temple is a 75 x 92 meters. The main gate located on the east. In the Tinggi Temple group area there is a main temple and six ancillary temples (performance)

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. Main temple now have two terraces and smaller body tends upwards.

Then there are 6 temples again that only the foundations and only a little part of his leg. A number of important findings that can be found from the Tinggi Temple is a piece of iron and bronze objects, old-fashioned glass, fragments of stone statues, pottery shards are generally household appliance-style originating from China from 9-14 century and hundreds of bricks inscribed, marked, and hundreds of bricks stamped with. And the letters on the brick showed the letter written Pallawa (Prenagari).

Dikompleks Muaro Jambi temple, there are a Kembar BatuTemple, located about 250 meters southeast of the Tinggi Temple physically restricted by a fence around a rectangular shape with a size that is not the same each side, but can be calculated roughly 64 X 54 square meters and there are pole structure buildings made of wood and floor made of bricks. Chinese Gong ever found by archaeologists. Bronze gongs from China so-called war gong, which is now stored in the Jambi State Museum. And there is also the main temple, measuring 11.5 x 11.5 meters in front of a Perwara temple (viewer). Parent temple has a staircase on the east.

Then Gedong which consists of two parts, namely Gedong 1 and Gedong 2. Both are very close to its location about 150 meters. This temple is located about 1450 meters from east Kedaton Temple, had the same structure on the east stairs. Gedong 1 Temple is very unique, at the square building  are many common findings many Chinese coins as 161 pieces, religious equipment, brick-profile, bow brick, brick relief and China ceramics and local pottery (tembikar). Most of the money is in a state of wear and difficult to read. Most of the letters originated from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), Southern Tang dynasty (937-976 AD) and Sung dynasty (960-1280 AD). In Gedong Temple also contained a statue Jagopati (Arca Pvt)

Amazing, Until the beginning of the 21st century AD, the temple site Muaro Jambi has identified approximately 110 buildings of the temple which consists of approximately 39 groups of temples. The temple building is fromMalay kingdom until the kingdom of Sriwijaya, a Buddhist Malay cultural background. It is estimated location of the site’s temples of Muaro jambi history began to be built since the 4th century AD, one among a group of temples is the Gumpung Temple.

Location Gumpung Temple group is at 500 meters on the right and going Batanghari river. Gumpung Temple is the second largest temple after Kedaton temple. Gumpung Temple composed of brick buildings of various shapes and sizes. And here archaeological objects ever found successful by archaeologists. Temple Group Gumpung restricted fence that forms a square which has a total length of 604.40 meters. total area of Gumpung Temple is 229.50 m2. Temple Gumpung have ancillary temples (the viewer) of 5 pieces, not really clear that its form, 4 gates and 2 place where the estimated former pond. Gumpung comes from naming a Menapo Gumpung from the surrounding community, in the Malay language means flat or a broken or cut thereon.

Location :
Muaro Jambi temple is located in Muaro Jambi Village, Muaro Sebo District, Jambi. Located 2 km north-east of Jambi city or 20 minutes by ground vehicles through Batanghari 2 Bridge .