Every time you visit a temple in Bali, you will see this kind of building at the top of temple area (jeroan – read bali temple) and they look like Pagoda in Thailand. Well, it’s called Meru, Balinese pagoda made with black sugar-palm fiber roofs, a shrine to the higher deities.

The number of the roof level maximum is 11 depending on the status of the divinity in the local hierarchy. A meru is constructed of an odd number of thatched tiers. The laws of traditional Balinese architecture carefully specify the dimensions of a meru, include the way it must be constructed, the types of wood, and the ceremonies involved in it, and even the day to start to work on it. It is indeed very complicated, everything must be base on the Balinese Calendar. About the Balinese Calendar, I will try to explain letter.

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