This temple consists of three parts, namely the temple, the temple body and the temple roof. The temple door faces west and above it is a decoration in the form of a time. On the north, east and south side there are niches that are also decorated at the top.
The temple chambers are empty and on the walls there are reliefs of the Surya God surrounded by sunlight. This relief is a Surya Majapahit relief, a symbol of the period of the Majapahit Kingdom. The top of the temple has been lost, while the legs of the temple have been renovated in 1993. This temple is composed of brick and andesite. From the number of years at the entrance of the 1271 Saka temple (1349 AD)
we can find out that the Kalicilik Temple is a relic of the Majapahit era, especially during the reign of Tribhuwanatunggadewi. Only until now is the unknown function of the Kalicilik Temple as a memorial for who remembers in Negarakrtagama and inscriptions never mentioning it. According to Agus Aris Munandar in his paper delivered in the Archipelago Ancient Manuscript Seminar as a Noble Value Heritage in commemoration of a quarter century National Library of the Republic of Indonesia said in the book Negarakrtagama pupuh XL stanza 5 ri sakasyabdi rudra karma kalahaniran mantuk ingswargaloka, kyating rat the dinarmma dwaya ri kagnangan / sewaboddeng usana means, in 1149 Saka (1227 AD) he passed away to sorghoka, leaving the world.
He was betrayed in two places in Kagnangan as Siwa and as a Buddha in Usana. The contents of this temple are a place of worship for the character of Ken Angrok, the founder of the Rajasa dynasty whose descendants rule in the Singasari and Majapahit Kingdoms. In addition to the book Negarakrtagama also mentioned in the book Pararaton pupuh XV stanza 25 ri linanira the amurwabhumi I saka 1169 sira dhinameng kagenengan means the amurwabhumi (Ken Angrok) died in 1169 Saka (1247 AD) he was patronized in Kagenengan.
Regarding Kagnangan / Kagenengan as the appreciation of Ken Angrok as Shiva or his dedication in Usana as a Buddha until now, its existence cannot be known with certainty. In the Blitar area there is a brick temple building named by the population now with Kalicilik Temple. Based on the findings of the Agastya statue, it can be seen that the Kalicilik Temple breathes Hindu-Shiva religion. On the front of the entrance door is sculpted in 1271 Saka (1349 AD) so that it is estimated that the Kalicilik Temple dates from the Majapahit period.
According to Raffles in the History of Java, calling this Kalicilik Temple the name Genengan Temple (Raffles, 2008: 382). Besides that, Agus Aris Munandar said that the possibility of Kagenengan where Ken Angrok was at the helm was the Kalicilik Temple, while the year number on the entrance threshold indicating the Majapahit period might be a number of years of warning of repairs or restoration of pre-existing buildings from the Singasari period
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