Built under the reign of King Jayavarman VII, KROL KO is a small temple made of sandstone. Buddha and Lokeshvara were omnipresent at the temple. This temple is a good example of an escape from iconographical destruction occurred at the end of the reign of the King, during the 13th century iconoclasm reaction (i.e Shaivite […]
This temple was built on an artificial island in the middle of small baray reservoir, the Indratataka baray (3800×800 meters). Its inscriptions indicate the date, 11th of July 893, and the position of the planets.
Neak Pean was built under Jayavarman VII, it is located at the center of the reservoir the Northern Baray, Jayatataka, dry until 2011, the year the Authorities started to refill it. Two “coiled serpent” framing the central tower and explain the name of the monument. This site’s cruciform layout symbolizes a miraculous lake in the […]
According to scholars, the date of construction of Phimeanakas is problematic. Construction was expected to begin around the end of the 8th century. The temple has an architectural form of the late 10th century, so under Jayavarman V. But it carries decorative elements of the ninth century, eleventh and thirteenth. As for epigraphy, there are […]
State temple of the first city in the core of Angkor – named Yasodharapura – Phnom Bakheng was dedicated about 907. Its hilltop location overlooks the Angkor site. It now offers visitors a splendid view on Angkor Wat and the Western Baray. Its builders erected 44 sanctuaries at ground level, 60 small sanctuaries on the […]
