The Pura Dalem segare madu in the village of Jagaraga This temple is located in the village of Jagaraga 11 km east of Singaraja and was built in 1181.
Now, often people walk around in a temple and they like it very much but sometimes they say I have no idea what I am looking at, can you explain?
When you visit this temple you will certainly get an answer to that question because Ketut (the keeper of the temple) shows you around and tells everything there is to know about the temple, Ketut Suradnya is his name, he is 71 years, speaks good English and is a nice and very funny man.
You even get the whole explanation about the temple on paper, he explains about the swastika (the Hindu sign), because this is not a figment of Adolf Hitler, but a sign which appeared in the Hindu faith a long time ago and goes back centuries.
The Jagaraga temple is also called the temple of the dead, this temple has a historical value especially during the war with the Dutch around 1848.
After the war, the temple was pretty damaged and the villagers have reconstructed the temple. The walls were rebuilt and on the outside you will find sculptures of the Dutch who sit in a car, also there are sculptures of an airplane, bicycle and boat, probably this is the way how the people saw the Dutch, but it is not entirely clear why these sculptures are on the wall.
There are also several sculptures of protector of the god, these images have to do with the reincarnation, the good spirit comes back as human and the bad spirit comes back as an animal.
The explanation of Ketut is many times better and this temple is recommended when you want to know more about the meaning of temples on Bali.
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