CANDI IJO

Ijo Temple is a Hindu-style temple complex, located 4 kilometers southeast of Candi Ratu Boko or about 18 kilometers east of Yogyakarta. This temple is estimated to be built between the period of the 10th century until the 11th AD at the time of the Medang period Mataram.Candi Ijo is located in Hamlet Groyokan, Sambirejo Village, Prambanan Subdistrict, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta. This temple is located on the western slopes of a hill which is still part of the hills of Batur Agung, approximately about 4 kilometers southeast of Candi Ratu Boko. Where on the bottom of the slope there are tourist cliffs Breksi Jogja which is a former mining of natural stone. Its position is on the hillside with an average height of 425 meters above sea level [2]. This temple is called "Ijo" because it is located on a hill called Gumuk Ijo. The enslavement complex opens to the west with beautiful panoramic views of rice fields and landscapes, such as Adisucipto Airport and Parangtritis beach. Plains where the main complex of the temple has an area of ​​about 0.8 hectares, but strong allegations that Ijo bathing complex is much wider, and jutting to the west and north. The allegations are based on the fact that when the hillside of Ijo Temple in the east and the north is mined by the population, many artifacts are found to be associated with the temple. The Ijo temple complex is built on a ridge called Gumuk / Bukit Ijo. This name has been mentioned in the Poh inscription dates to the year 906 AD in Old Javanese, in the fragment "... wanua i wuang hijo.anak village children, Ijo.Secara whole, the temple complex is terraces terraces, with the bottom on the west side and the highest part is on the east side, following the contour of the hill.The main enslavement complex is at the eastern end.In the west there are ruins of temple buildings that are still in the process of excavation and have not been restored [1] After being interrupted by a small garden, there is a higher terrace with quite a lot of ruins that are thought to come from a collection of small temples of worship (ancillary temples) .One of these temples has been restored in 2013. The main temple building stands on the foot of the temple berdenah base square 4. Entrance to the room in the body of the temple located in the middle of the west side wall, flanked by two false windows, ie the window nostrils but not perforated in the room inside. there are the north, east and south sides of the walls, each of which has three niches decorated with carvings of makara. The middle niches are higher than the two niches that flank them. These niches are now empty, presumably probably once on these niches once mounted statues. To reach the door which is located about 120 cm from the surface of the ground made the staircase equipped with a makara-shaped cheek ladder, mythical creature shaped fish and elephant-like. The head of the makara leaned down with a gaping mouth. Above the threshold there is a Kala head decoration. At the entrance there is a carving when makara, in the form of a giant mouth when connected makara. This kala-makara pattern is commonly found in the decoration of Central Java temples. As found in other temples in Central Java and Yogyakarta, both Kala heads are not equipped with lower jaws. Above the threshold of the two fake windows are also decorated with sculptured Kala head carvings. Inside the mouth of each makara there is a small bird parrot relief. False windows are outside of the north, east and south walls, three on each side. The window sill is also framed with a pair of makara and head decorations as it is in a fake window flanking the door. In the body of this main temple there is a room. In the center of the inner wall of the north, east and south sides there is a niche respectively. Each niche is flanked by sculptures on a wall depicting a pair of apsara that seem to fly toward the niches. Right in the middle of the room there is a phallus and yoni supported by the figure of a snake spoon. The creature that comes from this Hindu myth symbolizes the earth buffer. The unification of the phallus and yoni symbolizes the unity between Shiva and Parwati shaktinya. The roof of the three-storey storied temple, formed from a rectangular structure that is increasingly smaller. On each side there are three hundred rows in each level. A larger rat is on the roof. Along the boundary between the roof and the walls of the temple's body is decorated with rows of sculptures with intermittent patterns between tendrils and gana (dwarf creatures). Along the edge of the roof is decorated with a row of antephiks with a tendril frame. In each frame there is a half-body statue depicting gods in various hand positions