Hinduism sacred sites in Cambodia

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....

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....

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...

Koh Ker Linga Sanctuaries

Inside Koh Ker Archaeological Site

Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Four roofless linga temples stand on a north–south axis perpendicular to Prasat Thom and are separated by a ceremonial sandstone tank....

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....

Mahendraparvata

Part of Phnum Kulen

Svay Leu, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Airborne laser scanning and ground survey define Mahendraparvata as an extended ninth-century urban network on the Phnom Kulen plateau....

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....

Prasat Khnar and Trapeang Ang Khnar

Inside Koh Ker Archaeological Site

Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Prasat Khnar and its pond lie on an axis through the Rahal's south dyke; the temple once held a linga approximately seven metres high above a massive assembled pedestal....

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 Rong Chen

Inside Mahendraparvata

Svay Leu, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Prasat Rong Chen is a stepped temple mountain within the Mahendraparvata urban landscape and an important monumental anchor for interpreting the early city....

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 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....