Taman Ayun Temple

Pura Taman Ayun
Ayun Temple garden is situated in the village of Mengwi about 18 kilometers northwest of Denpasar city and is one of the ostensibly most beautiful in Bali. Pages arranged in such a beautiful temple and surrounded by fish ponds, built in 1634 by King Mengwi then I Gusti Agung Anom. Decorated by Meru - Meru towering and majestic cater for both the ancestral kingdom and for the gods who were in the palace of Pretending in Bali.



Pura Taman Ayun Temple is a mother (Paibon) for Mengwi. Every 210 days precisely each "Tuesday Kliwon Medangsia" (According to calculations Saka year) all the people Mengwi piodalan celebrate for a few days to worship God with all its manifestations.

Temple complex is divided into 4 different pages, which one is higher than the others. First page called Jaba can be achieved only by passing through the only bridge pool and gate. Once inside there was a small monument to guard the entrance and on the right there is a vast structure (wantilan) which are often held there during the ceremony cockfight.

On this page, there is also a monument fountain that leads to the 9 cardinal directions. As he headed to the next page, on the right road there is a complex of small temple named Pura Luhuring Purnama.
Area into three or page into two, its position is higher than the first page to go to this page, visitors must pass through a second gate. Once inside, the view will be fixed on a building Aling-aling "Bale Pengubengan" which is decorated with reliefs depict "Dewata Nawa Sanga", (9 Gods guard cardinal directions).

This temple is destroyed by the severe earthquake that occurred in 1917 and did not get restored until 1950. Moment, and a pillar of the temple whose height reaches 16 meters in the courtyard inside the temple was built according to the architecture of Java, while the smaller temple who form the seat of stone fruit amounted to 64 times a megalithic monument to commemorate the ancestors of the knights who died in the war.