Preah Ko Temple

Preah Ko: the "Sacred bull"

Location: between Bakong and Lolei; on the western side of the road to Bakong temple

Date: late 9th century (879)

King: Indravarman I (reigned 877-889) 

Religion: Hindu (dedicated to Shiva); funerary temple built for the king's parents, maternal grandparents, and a previous king, Jayavarman II and his wife.

Art style: Preah Ko 

Preah Ko, meaning "sacred ox", was named as such by local residents in the later period around the 16th or 17th century, because of the three statues of sacred bulls which dominated the area in front of the main shrines, in the central part of the temple complex. The ox was considered a sacred animal in ancient times, but that is not the case anymore. The previous name of Preah Ko temple was Paramesvara, the posthumous name of King Jayavarman II, the great king who started the Angkor power and the glorious era. 

 

Pre Rup Temple

PRE RUP: " Turn" or "Change, The Body"

Location: northeast of Srah Srang and 500m south of the East Baray 

Date: Second half of the tenth century (961)

King: Rajendravarman II (reigned 944-968)

Religion: Hindu (dedicated to Shiva)

Art style: Pre Rup

Because the temple is built entirely of brick and laterite, the warm tones of these materials are best seen early in the morning or when the sun is setting. Two views from the top terrace are outstanding: first, looking east towards Phnom Bok and Phnom Kulen; and second, looking west, where the towers of Angkor Wat can be distinguished on the far horizon. 

Pre Rup is the temple's name, means "turning the body" from a later developed local myth. The process of turning a corpse during a cremation rite and associated with a sandstone cistern shape found in front of the eastern staircase of the main shrine's foundation. The name reflects the common belief among Cambodians that funerals were conducted at the temple, with the ashes of the body being ritually rotated in different directions as the service progressed. 

The local people understood that after the cremation, the remains of the king and collected ashes were washed at another square laterite building at a northeast location next to the long hall nearby. 

Tonle Snguot​ Temple

Tonle Snguot is a small ruin sandstone temple open to the east. It’s one of the four hospital chapels around Angkor Thom. In all 102 were built throughout the Khmer empire, under the reign of Jayavarman VII (1181-1218 A.D).

With its now serious deformations, partial fall down and risks of collapse structures, causes by water, tree and due to an age of structure. Foundation weakness terrace structure deformation, wall stone leaning, shifting, and partial fall down at the southeast and northwest corners and Mandapa is completely collapsed on the ground. 

The efforted of the APSARA National Authority is preserving temple and allowed the Department of Conservation of the Monuments in Angkor Park and Preventive Archaeology conducted and archaeological survey, architectural assessment, maintenances and propping structures risk of collapse. In 2019, the Royal Government of Cambodia granted fund for initiated the phase I; focus on structural stabilization of central shrine, such as: scattered stone inventory, excavation, looking for missing stones, stone conservation and treatment, stone trial assembly, graphic document, and dismantling stones. Phase II & III 2020-2021 continued to repair the foundation and structural stabilization and reassembling of the central shrine. 

 

Preah Vihear Temple

Preah Vihear Temple is an imposing temple situated on a promontory of the Dangrek Mountain range (length: 152m) and (width: 160m) at a height of 657m above sea level and 547m from the top to the flatland of Cambodia. Preah Vihear is arguably the most spectacular location of any Khmer site. The natural topography is ideal for an earthly representation of the heavenly cosmos, which the Khmer strove to build and worthy of a temple dedicated to Shiva, the "supreme being of the mountain". The temple is unusually oriented to the north, away from Cambodia. Based on the style of architecture, Preah Vihear was built over a period of some 300 years by various kings. 

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Bakan Temple (Preah Khan Kampong Svay)

Bakan Temple (Preah Khan Kampong Svay) is located in Bakan village, Ronakser Commune, Sangkum Thmei District, Preah Vihear Province and approximately 105 km from Angkor. These temples were built between the half of the 11th century and the beginning of the 14th century. The main cultural complex is related to the Angkor Wat Style (first half of the 12th century) with some additional structures and satellite temples related to the Bayon style period (end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century). Except for an unfinished Hindu temple built during the first half of the 11th century, monuments of the Bakan are mostly related to Buddhism (Mahayana and Theravada). 

Prasat Krachap​

Date: 928C.E

Reign: Jayavarman IV

Dedicate: Vishnu (Tribhuvanadeva)

This marker temple consists of five brick towers in quincunx order on a shared platform with four square towers surrounding one rectangular tower. The four towers are oriented toward the Rohal, while the middle tower, which has three rooms, faces to the East and West. The inscriptions in this temple, written in old Khmer script, describe Jayavarman IV’s construction of the temple for worship and dedication to Tribhuvanadeva along with offerings and slaves from other parts of the country. Prasat Krachap (Krachap Temple) is distinguished from other temples nearby Rohal by its laterite causeway to the Rohal and by the richness of its surviving artifacts, including 38 inscriptions and a number of magnificent statues that were housed in its middle tower. A number of these statues were looted, but have recently been repatriated to Cambodia, including the renowned Shiva and Skanda, his son, and Skanda on a peacock, while others are now being excavated by Cambodian archaeologists, and will be displayed in the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh.