Gedung Songo
The Gedung Songo or " nine constructions" in Javanese, is a whole of temples located on the slopes of the Ungaran mount, in the south of the town of Semarang in the center of Java. These temples are of the same type as those of the Plateau of Dieng located at south-west, and probably date from the same time, that is to say towards 750 after J. - C., except one whose style could go back to 800. These temples are numbered from one to nine, of low with highest. Only some are still upright or were restored.
Each one of these constructions was in fact a group of temples, of which the currently visible most complete representation is at group III. There are there three temples of which largest, that of the center, is devoted to Shiva with its Lingam in concealed square.
The other complexes of Gedong Songo, today ruined or limited to only one monument, in general restored recently, were to arise in the same way, with however architectural evolutions or esthetic characteristics. There is there the prototype of what will be made in much larger with the temple of Prambanan, like for the majority of the temples hindouists of Java until the 13th century.
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