Candi Jawi
Built in 1332, Candi Jawi is located in Pandaan, on the foot of Gunung Welirang. The Siva-Buddhist Candi Jawi is the funebral monument of Kertanagara, the last King of Singosari.
Visted by Prapanca in 1361 as part of the entourage of King Hayam Wuruk. He reports that the sanctuary was Civaite and Buddhist. It had been hit by lightning 30 years prior to his visit, but was subsequently rebuilt.
Candi Jawi is built in the style of East Java: the temple body is slender and the temple sports a tall, tapering roof the size of which accounts for half the height of the entire building. The base is the broadest part of the building. The narrow body broadens at the top to support the base of the roof. The entrance to the temple is guarded by a kala
head.
A continuous relief, rather than a series of individual pictures tell a story.
The ceiling of the main shrine bears the image of Surya, the Sun God.
The central cella of the temple has a Yoni.
Prior to WWII, the base and roof had been reconstructed. At the time, only the base had been rebuilt (completion in 1938), and failing information about the height of the temple body, the roof was left in a trial construction.
The main temple was restored between 1976 - 1980. The original site was larger as shown by remnants of gates elsewhere in the compound.