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Early medieval · Hindu · Indonesia
Cangkuang Temple
Leles, Garut, West Java · -7.1033°, 107.9189°
ShivaUndeterminedEarly Central Javanese Hindu candi form
Sacred since
700 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
early 8th c.
Undetermined
History & significance
A small andesite Shaivite temple on an island in Situ Cangkuang lake, 8.5 m tall on a 4.5 m square base, sheltering a 62 cm stone Shiva. Its plain three-stepped roof with pseudo-lingam pinnacles resembles the earliest Central Javanese Hindu temples, and experts put it around the early 8th century, roughly contemporary with the Dieng group.