Sacred sites in Siem Reap

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....

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....

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 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....

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 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....

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....