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Late medieval · Hindu · Indonesia
Pura Taman Ayun
Mengwi, Badung, Bali · -8.5416°, 115.1726°
Hindu gods and the ancestors of the Mengwi royal houseMengwiBalineseUNESCO World Heritage
Sacred since
1634 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1634 (Mengwi kingdom)
Mengwi
History & significance
A moated royal temple laid out in three courtyards with ranks of tiered meru towers, raised in 1634 by Gusti Agung Putu, king of Mengwi, to honour his ancestors; renovated in 1750 and again in 1937, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2012 as part of Bali's subak cultural landscape.