Meduwe Karang Temple

 Located in the village of Kubutambahanm , District Kubutambahan ± 12 km east of Singaraja City , approximately 1 km from the junction of Singaraja , Kubutambahan and Kintamani . This temple begged place plants in fields managed and well bias . Cluster of stairs lead visitors to an area outside the temple ( jabaan ) broad on the front decorated stone sculptures padas , 34 in number , were taken from the characters and scenes of the Ramayana story .
Environmental Maduwe Pura Karang Temple is one of Bali's environment has been known to foreign tourists before the Second World War . In the era of foreign tourists come to Bali by sea in the port of Buleleng . In this place while waiting for the tourists to use public transport time to visit the neighborhood in the village of Pura Beji Sangsit , Environmental Maduwe Pura Pura Kubutambahan.Lingkungan Reef Village is comprised of three levels , namely Jaba temple outside the temple compound or jabaan , Middle Jaba , and Offal , the deepest part is the most sanctified . Two stone steps uphill toward Jaba temple , which is decorated on the front stone sculptures the rocks , thirty- four in number , were taken from the characters and scenes of the Ramayana story .

The statue that stands in the middle of the show Kumbakarna fighting and attacked by the army of monkeys Sugriva . A unique, on the wall in the north there are relief carvings of people riding bikes rear wheels are lotus flower leaves . Another attraction is the sculpture of Durga in its manifestation as Rangda , in a sitting position with her ​​knees wide open so that her genitals clearly visible . Placed his right hand on the head of a little boy standing next to his knees , his right foot placed on top of a horned animal that was lying . In another part of the wall of the temple compound there is an equestrian sculpture and carvings Astimuka fly . This figure is depicted together with Sang Hyang Gana ( Ganesha ) , the god with the elephant face . Confines of the temple is located in the Coral Maduwe Kubutambahan Village , 12 km East of Singaraja .
Unique , at the bottom of the wall to the north, there are relief carvings of people riding bikes rear wheel is made from the leaves of the lotus flower .
Based on the historical origins of Pura Meduwe Reef , which is derived from the results of the study and research of the history of temples in Bali in 1981/1982 by the local government of Bali in cooperation with the Institute of Hindu Dharma ( IHD ) Denpasar , Pura Maduwe Coral , built in the 19th century AD , precisely in 1890 by the local migration , from the village of Bulian , an ancient Balinese village , to the location of the village Kubutambahan .
In accordance with the terms used , called Pura Maduwe means that memilikim Coral Reef ( own land , in the form of dry land ) Kubutambahan Village , New migrant settlement Bulian village of origin . So therefore , Pura Maduwe Reef status and rank as perlak temple ( Pura Subak Abian ) that diempon , cuddly , and disiwi disungsung by karma Subak Kubutambahan whose origins are from immigrant farmers Bulian village . In other words Maduwe Pura Karang