Second largest Murugan statue in the world is in Indonesia.

No need all the way to Malaysia to see the towering Murugan Statue. Because at Shri Raja Rajeshwari Amman Kovil Temple is located about 35 Km from Medan City, precisely in Padang Cermin Village, Kecamatan of Selesai, Langkat Regency, North Sumatera, can also find the statue of Murugan God as high as 50 feet or about 16 meters soaring to the sky on the left side temple. 

The world’s largest statue of the Monster Lord is in Batu Cave, Malaysia with 18 meters high, while Murugan Statue in Langkat, North Sumatra is the second largest. North Sumatra is one of the provinces that have a good level of religious tolerance in Indonesia. Therefore, here are many religious tourism objects open to the public can be visited by tourists, ranging from Great Mosque, Velangkani Church to Vihara in Lumbini Park. The house of worship became an icon of religious tourism object of Medan City that can be visited by all religions and circles. Each location has its own uniqueness and advantages. 

The Temple of Shri Raja Rajeshwari Amman Kovil is different from other temples because it has a Murugan statue built by sculptors from India and so is the architecture also Indian. Rahman, the temple guard, said the Murugan statue was built in 2012 by bringing in direct sculptors and architecture from India for its work. “All the materials are also from the outside, he said the same material is also used for making the statue in Batu Cave, Malaysia.The building of the statue is painted with gold dazzling color from long ago already seen,” he said. He says Murugan God is a famous Hindu deity among the Tamils ​​in Tamil Nadu state in India, and Sri Lanka. This deity is also known by various names, such as Kartikeya, Kumara, Shanmukha, Skanda, and Subramaniam, who are the god of war and the protector of Tamil country. 

The god Murugan is portrayed as a young-fledged deity, armed with a spear and riding a peacock. Therefore, within this temple complex there is also a peacock enclosure and there are three beautiful peacocks in it. “Unique here is not the Tamil people, the average Javanese and Batak, Jamaah who come from outside the region, especially Medan, so it is quite open to the public from morning to evening, but to enter the temple only until 12:00,”.