Cibuaya Temple is situated in Cibuaya Sub-district, Karawang District, in the vicinity of Batujaya Temple Complex. The remains of a temple in Cibuaya was discovered by the Office of Historical Heritage in 1952. Among the discovered items were two piles of unur (a pile of soil in a paddy field)
At first the two piles were thought to be the remains of a Dutch forth. The opinion, however, changed as soon as a Vishnu statue was discovered in the area. Five years later (1957), the second Vishnu statue was excavated. Now, the statues are kept in National Museum, Jakarta, and referred to as Vishnu statue I and Vishnu statue II.
In 1975, when the Institution for National Historical Heritages conducted an excavation and a research in the area, the Cibuaya Vishnu statue III was discovered. Until now, the reconstruction of the ruined Lanang (male) Temple and Wadon (female) is still far from possible.
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