Enjoying Bali Tour With Bali Agung Tour, Visiting One of the Most Beautiful temple in Bali, well-known as Taman Ayun Temple. Here is The brief story about this temple :




TAMAN AYUN TEMPLE :

Pura Taman Ayun is beautifully appointed temple, with its own surrounding moat, in the village at mengwi, 18 Km west of Denpasar. The history of this temple is closely associated with the beginning of raja kingdom of Mengwi, in 1627 B.C. it was built in 1634 AD at that time the ruler of the first Raja of Mengwi, I gusti Agung Ngurah Agung who later become known as Ida Cokorda Sakti Blambangan. As the royal family temple of the Raja of Mengwi, this temple is a place to worship the royal ancestor who find their rest in a special shrine known as the “Gedong Paibon”. Following the pattern of most Balinese temples, Pura Taman Ayun have three connecting temple yards. The innermost sanctum is known as ” Utama Mandala”( The Highest Circle), the middle yard as ” Madia Mandala” and the outer as ” Nista Mandala” (The humble circle).
The enter the main sanctum one must pass through a raised gateway, known as Kori agung (Paduraksa) and the the gateway between the outer and middle connect in a split gate, known as “Candi Bentar”. Apart form the “Gedong Paibon”, didicated to one ancestor, in the middle courtyard are other shrine dedicated to the various main temples in Bali. This shrine were built by Raja to ensure that his kingdom and people would able to share in the prosperity and fertility of the nation, and also to enable all the people at Mengwi to conduct the religious ceremonies at the temple, such as ” meajar-ajar” and to request holy water to protect the rice fields from pestilence, etc. There is also another shrine in the middle courtyard dedicated to the “Pasek Badak” a famous here of bygone days from Raja’s Troop. The extensive temple grounds of Taman Ayun also function as a resting place for the royal family, covering 4 hectares of land ; temples and surrounded by large moat, which use to full of lotus and lily flowers of all colours and around the edges of the moat can be found frangipani, cempaka, kenanga and other perfumed flowering ress as well as mangoestein, durian, manggo and rambutan fruit trees. The temple has always been strongly influenced by the ups and down at the Rajadom of Mengwi. In 10th, Raja Mengwi ” Igusti Agung Made Agung” lost the battle and had to retreat to escape with life in to the bordering eastern district, during the victorious Raja Of Badung the temple was never looked after properly, and the temple building deteriorated due to lack of care. In year 1911 AD, part of royal family return to their family seat at Mengwi and Pura Taman Ayun was restored, however on 20th January 1917 a violent earth-quake damaged many of existing building, repairs have been done in stage to return the temple to its original condition. The odalan’ Temple festival’ at Pura Taman Ayun falls every 210 days on day known as ” Selasa Kliwon Wuku Medangsia”. Many tourists used to visit the temple, before the second world war the family of Puri Gede Menwi still maintain the temple, assisted by committee made up of the local traditional leader such as the village official from the Mengwi District.