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Late medieval · Hindu · Indonesia

Candi Cetho

Karanganyar, Central Java · -7.5956°, 111.1581°

Hindu shrine; dedication not recordedMajapahit
Sacred since
1400 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
15th c. (late Majapahit)
Majapahit

History & significance

A terraced fifteenth-century Javanese-Hindu temple at 1,495 metres on the western slope of Mount Lawu, on the boundary between Central and East Java, and one of a small group built on these slopes in the same period. Like nearby Sukuh it departs sharply from the Indian-derived forms of the eighth to tenth centuries, and it belongs to the last significant phase of temple building in Java before the island's courts converted to Islam in the sixteenth century.

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Related sites

Candi Sukuh
Karanganyar · Indonesia
c. 1437 (late Majapahit)

Sources

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Majapahit