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Cambodia
Cambodia brings together sacred architecture, pilgrimage traditions, and landscapes shaped by memory, ritual, and local devotion.
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Angkor Borei
Angkor Borei, Takeo, Cambodia
Angkor Borei is a long-lived moated settlement in Cambodia's southern floodplain, studied together with—but physically distinct from—the temple hill of Phnom Da....
Angkor Thom
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Angkor Thom is the roughly 900-hectare fortified capital associated with Jayavarman VII, entered through five monumental gates and centered on Bayon....
Angkor Wat
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Angkor Wat is the largest religious structure on earth—a stone representation of Mount Meru, the cosmic mountain at the center of the universe....
Bakong
Roluos, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Consecrated by Indravarman I in 881 at Hariharalaya, Bakong is the earliest fully developed Khmer temple mountain and anchors a much larger enclosure of subsidiary shrines....
Baksei Chamkrong
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Baksei Chamkrong is an early brick-and-laterite temple dedicated to Shiva and to the memory of Yasovarman I, with a precisely dated 948 inscription....
Banteay Samré
Banteay Srei, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Banteay Samré is a compact, carefully proportioned twelfth-century temple whose pediments include both Hindu and Buddhist narrative scenes....
Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Banteay Srei was founded by a royal dignitary and dedicated in 967 to Tribhuvanamaheshvara; its pink sandstone reliefs preserve an unusually refined Shaiva and Vaishnava...
Baphuon
Inside Angkor Thom
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Baphuon is the large eleventh-century temple mountain of Udayadityavarman II, later transformed on its west side with a monumental reclining Buddha....
Bayon
Inside Angkor Thom
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Bayon is Jayavarman VII's state temple at the center of Angkor Thom, known for its face towers, layered building history, and extensive bas-reliefs....
Beng Mealea
Svay Leu, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Beng Mealea is a large twelfth-century temple complex whose galleries, enclosures, water features, and surrounding urban grid extend beyond its best-known collapsed...
East Mebon
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
East Mebon was built by Rajendravarman II as an island temple within the East Baray, with five brick towers rising above laterite and sandstone platforms....
Kbal Spean (River of a Thousand Lingas)
Part of Phnum Kulen
Banteay Srei, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Kbal Spean is a forest stream whose bed and banks carry carved lingas and Hindu deities, linking sacred imagery to flowing water....
Koh Ker Archaeological Site
Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Koh Ker was the tenth-century Khmer capital known as Chok Gargyar or Lingapura, with temples, settlement, roads, quarries, and an extensive sacred water system spread...
Lolei
Roluos, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Lolei's four surviving brick towers were consecrated by Yasovarman I in 893 on an artificial island within the Indratataka reservoir....
Phimeanakas
Inside Angkor Thom
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Phimeanakas stands within the Royal Palace enclosure and was developed from the late tenth into the early eleventh century as a royal sacred structure....
Phnom Bakheng
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Phnom Bakheng is Yasovarman I's temple mountain above the early capital of Yasodharapura and one of Angkor's major works of sacred landscape planning....
Phnom Bok
Banteay Srei, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Phnom Bok is one of the hilltop temples associated with Yasovarman I, with a triad dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma....
Phnom Da
Angkor Borei, Takeo, Cambodia
Phnom Da is the temple-bearing hill south of Angkor Borei, known for its summit sanctuary, caves, inscriptions, and sculptures associated with early Cambodian art....
Phnum Kulen
Svay Leu District, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Phnom Kulen is the most sacred mountain in Cambodia, the place where Jayavarman II declared the founding of the Khmer Empire in 802 CE....
Prasat Krahom at Koh Ker
Inside Prasat Thom and Prang
Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Prasat Krahom is the red-brick sanctuary within the main Prasat Thom sequence and is associated in the nomination record with a monumental image of five-faced, ten-armed...
Prasat Kravan
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Prasat Kravan is a row of five brick towers whose interior brick bas-reliefs include rare monumental images of Vishnu and Lakshmi....
Prasat Neang Khmau at Koh Ker
Inside Koh Ker Archaeological Site
Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Prasat Neang Khmau is a solitary laterite sanctuary at Koh Ker whose darkened fabric gives the modern name 'Black Lady.' The shrine belongs to Koh Ker's Shaiva landscape...
Prasat Phnom Chisor
Srok Samraong, Takéo, Cambodia
Prasat Phnom Chisor rises 133 meters above the flat Takeo Province plain, a Khmer hilltop temple built in the early eleventh century by King Suryavarman I and originally...
Prasat Preah Vihear
Choam Ksant, Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Prasat Preah Vihear stretches 800 meters along the Dangrek escarpment at 525 meters elevation, a Khmer temple built across three centuries by successive kings who placed...
Prasat Thom and Prang
Inside Koh Ker Archaeological Site
Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Prasat Thom is Koh Ker's principal axial temple complex, culminating in the seven-tiered Prang that carried the royal Shiva linga Tribhuvanesvara....
Pre Rup
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Pre Rup was constructed under Rajendravarman II and dedicated to Shiva in 961, combining brick sanctuaries with laterite and sandstone platforms....
Preah Khan of Kompong Svay
Sangkum Thmei, Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Preah Khan of Kompong Svay is an immense, multi-period temple-city near Phnom Dek whose monumental, settlement, and industrial landscape covers roughly 22 square...
Preah Ko
Roluos, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Preah Ko is Indravarman I's six-tower ancestral temple at Hariharalaya, dedicated to royal predecessors and centered on Shiva under the name Paramesvara....
Sambor Prei Kuk
Prasat Sambour, Kampong Thom, Cambodia
Sambor Prei Kuk preserves the temple zone of ancient Ishanapura, with 186 fired-brick temples and an adjoining moated city, causeways, and river connections....
Ta Keo
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Ta Keo, originally Hemaśṛṅgagiri, was begun under Jayavarman V as a five-towered Shaiva temple mountain and remained unfinished after work continued under later rulers....
Ta Prohm
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Originally Rajavihara, Ta Prohm was consecrated by Jayavarman VII in 1186 and associated its principal image of Prajnaparamita with the king's mother....
Wat Langka, Phnom Penh
Khan Boeng Keng Kang, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Wat Langka is one of the five original pagodas established when King Ponhea Yat founded Phnom Penh in 1442....
Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh
Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Wat Ounalom is the most important Buddhist monastery in Cambodia, headquarters of the Mahanikaya Order and residence of the Supreme Patriarch....
Key questions
Cambodia sacred-site questions
What sacred sites can I explore in Cambodia?
Pilgrim Map lists sacred places in Cambodia across living worship sites, heritage landmarks, pilgrimage destinations, and culturally significant landscapes. The current guide lists 33 sites organized by region and tradition.
Which traditions are represented in Cambodia?
The most represented traditions include Hinduism, Buddhism.
How should I plan a sacred-site visit in Cambodia?
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