Sukuh temple site was first reported in the reign of the United Kingdom

Sukuh temple site was first reported in the reign of the United Kingdom in the land of Java in 1815 by Johnson, Resident of Surakarta. Johnson was then tasked by Thomas Stanford Raffles to collect data in order to write his book The History of Java. After the British government passed, in 1842, Van der Vlis, Dutch archaeologist, doing research. The first restoration was begun in 1928.

Sukuh temple gives the impression of a striking simplicity of the visitors. The impression gained from this temple is quite different to that obtained from the large temples in Central Java, the other is the Borobudur and Prambanan Temple. Sukuh temple building form tends to resemble the Mayan culture and heritage in Mexico or Peru's Inca heritage. This structure will also remind the visitors forms a pyramid in Egypt.

This impression of simplicity attracted famous Dutch archaeologist, WF Stutterheim, in 1930. He tried to explain by giving three arguments. First, the possibility sculptor Sukuh Temple is not a mason but a carpenter from the village and not from the palace. Both temples made with a little less haste so neat. Third, the political situation at that time with a near collapse of Majapahit, making it impossible to create a large and magnificent temple.

The visitors who enter the main door and entered the biggest gate will see a distinctive architectural form that is not arranged perpendicular but somewhat oblique, trapezoidal in shape with a roof on it.

Rocks in this temple somewhat reddish in color, because the stones used is the type of andesite.