The area of the temple has an area of 500 square meters, with surrounding shrubs as a limiting plant. It is unclear the origin of this temple because there is no information board made by the Malang Regency government. However, based on the name, Sapto itself means seven even though it is still a mystery what Sapto means because there are only five statues. Yes, you will not see the temple building there but five statues.
The five statues form a semicircular formation facing Mount Kelud, the condition is not intact with everything without heads being cut to half body. There is even one statue that has only the stone left and is stacked carelessly.
The direction to this temple is quite easy, from Malang, Pujon, Kediri, you can turn right from Kasembon after approximately 300 meters from SMP PGRI. From there a trip lived 5 kilometers towards Bayem Village. From the white monument crossing remained straight and then there were three of SDN Bayem 2 turning left and there the location of the Sapto Temple. Quoted from Samala Malang Post Expedition Archaeologist, Dwi Cahyono explained, naming the Sapto Temple came from the discovery of seven statues in the area.
According to him, when viewed from its location, the Sapto Temple area is quite extensive, because other statues are also found. There are large brick pillars or fishponds and stone pillars. The statue that is located at that location is a statue of a deity from Mahayana Buddhism. Dwi explained, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon there are many Buddhists, one of which is Dyanibudha and Dyanibodhisatwa. The two types of buddha are distinguished based on great clothes.
Dyanibudha does not wear oversized clothes, while dyanibodhisatwa wears oversized clothing and all accessories such as upawita, crown, kankana, and others.
These seven statues are the tatagatha system, namely the composition of the god of Buddhahana, the configuration is always odd. Four plus one or six plus one with the position of the wara mudra and one budha in the middle with the position of the mudra chakra. Sapto Temple leads to Mount Kelut so that it can function as a guardian of the Kelut Mountain and almost the same as the Bocok Temple
Interestingly, when viewed from the details of the statues, it is estimated that the temple has not been completed. This can be seen from the part of the head which is still in the shape of a lump of stone. Apart from that, there are also statues that still don't have a variety of decorations. Maybe it hasn't been completed yet, then the Mount Kelud eruption is still active.
So, the part that is seen at this time is the peak of the temple made of a mixture of large-sized bricks with andesite rocks resulting from the launch of Mount Kelud. The existence of the Bocok Temple and the adjacent Sapto Temple indicate that Buddhism and Hinduism were important religions during the Majapahit reign
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