Batuan Temple

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Batuan Temple is a local Balinese Hindu temple looked after by the local resident of Batuan countryside. The temple is designed very beautiful with full of Balinese ornaments and the roof temple building is made from the fiber of chromatic black palm tree. It is strategically located beside of the main road from Denpasar to Ubud
For over a thousand years, Batuan has been a village of artists and craftsmen, old legends and mysterious tales. Batuan's recorded history begins in A.D. 1022, with an inscription that is housed in the main village temple, Pura Desa Batuan. The name "Batuan" or "Baturan" mentioned here prompts villagers to joke about being "tough as stone" or "eating rocks" - as batu means "stone" in Balinese. But it likely refers to an ancient megalithic tradition in which standing stones served as meeting places and ceremonial sites for the worship of ancestral spirits. Because Batuan became a center from which Buddhist priests and brahmans spread to the main court centers of south Bali, the village has an unusual preponderance of brahmans.

Batuan Temple is one of the trynity temple in Bali or Tri Kahyangan of Tri Murti temple. For that reason, you will find three different sites with its own functions. The Village Temple turns out to be the place for worshiping God Brahma, while he Puseh Temple is used to worship pf God Vishnu. The Dalem Temple is the place to worship of Lord Shiva. This very old temple was built in 944 based on the concept introduced by Mpu Kuturan to Balinese Hindu community around the 10th century.