Mayura Temple Lombok

Mayura Temple is located in business and store centre in Cakranegara, Mataram Lombok. Mayura temple was built by king A.A Made Karangasem, in 1744 when Bali kingdom still reigned over Lombok island. At the beginning it called Kelepug Palace Garden. The name came from the sound ‘kelepug..kelepug’ from the strongly-flowed water from the spring which fell in the palace’s pool. The name turned into Mayura park temple when the park and the temple were renovated by A.A Ngurah Karangasem in around 1866. The word ‘mayura’ was taken from the Sanskrit language which means peacock bird. At that time, there were many snakes around the temple which disturbed people to do the praying. Some counselors advised to breed peacock bird around the park and the temple so they would make the snakes as their prey. Since then, the name of Mayura park was known.

Mayura park offers a combined atmosphere of nature, religious and history. The park area is divided into two parts, park and temple. The park area is neatly arranged. When you’re in it, you will feel a natural peaceful. Around the park there are lines of mangoes trees and well-treated green grass. The park is also completed with pool which in the middle of it, there is a building which used to be a meeting place or to accept guests. The building is called Rat Kerte of also called often as gili (which mean ‘small island’ in Sasak language).

According to a park keeper, the main spirit of this park is a temple which located in the beginning of the pool. But this temple is often missed because the park’s attractive side and the visitor’s attention are widely covered by the park’s vast area.

In the temple area and the worship place, there are four main temples, which are Mount Rinjani, Ngelurah, Padmasana, and Gedong temple. Gedong temple is usually functioned as a worship place which is widely visited by Hindu people from around the world.