Prambanan

7.7520°S, 110.4917°E.

Prambanan in central Java, Indonesia — the largest Hindu temple complex in Southeast Asia, completed in 850 CE under the Mataram dynasty as the Hindu counterpart to the Buddhist Borobudur 50 kilometres west. The complex consists of three principal towers — the central 47-metre-tall Shiva temple flanked by smaller towers for Vishnu and Brahma — surrounded by 224 perwara temples in a square enclosure. Original architectural plan covered approximately 390 by 222 metres. The principal towers are built of dressed andesite blocks fitted without mortar and decorated with continuous carved reliefs depicting episodes from the Ramayana. The complex was abandoned in the eleventh century after a major eruption of nearby Mount Merapi covered the site in volcanic ash; it was substantially damaged again by the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake and has been progressively restored by Indonesian state archaeologists since the 1930s. UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991.

The largest Hindu temple complex in Southeast Asia, built in the same generation and the same kingdom as the largest Buddhist monument in the world — by the same dynasty practising both religions in parallel.