PHNOM BAKHENG TEMPLE

PHNOM BAKHENG TEMPLE

A location that foreign tourists always come packed together before they were completed tours on the territory Siem before the night arrives, that is brasaeatophnombakheng there are a synagogue of visitors, hundreds of people a day to look dated sink and look at the landscape in the Angkor area almost whole.

Brasaeatophnombakheng temple is situated on a natural hill was considered a temple tower cross five and five. The temple is located in the left-hand road from Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, where can attract a lot of visitors at sunset. Built in the late 9th century and early 10th century in Yasovarman 1 (889-910) criminal provisions. Phnom Bakheng height 65 mm. Brasaeatophnombakheng top 109 and has a height of 45 mm. The temple represents Mount Meru. The temple is a 7-story ground floor and five upper representing paradise 7 preahin floor in the Hindu mythology.

The temple is really special because both towers 108 is equal sort is 12 huge towers on the roof top. Today, a large number of these towers collapsed. The 12 towers in each class representing the 12 animals of the tower 108, perhaps symbolic of the lunar intervals 4 within 27 days of each interval. In each direction, we can see only 33 towers representing the 33 angels in the criminal provisions.

Stairs temple is very charged. On the stairs of 5 Lions win a point man. The temple is surrounded by a laterite wall containing gopuras. In addition, the mother temple in North Castle, which has filed two penis and two libraries. In the mountains this podcast floor in the center of the entrance to the temple.

Central tower originally filed Statue penis. The tower had to go through the four doors. The four towers in the upper deposited penis Statue door into two directions. The central tower apsaras. Inscriptions on the west branch of the North door of the central tower. Inscriptions brasaeatophnombakheng is located in the center of the city, the study advances. This is confirmed by the findings choking mark the city's old walls at the end of the 9th century. The temple, originally locked Kiri. Later called the central mountains. The call may think on the comparison between the plus and mountain hills below and the mountain in the middle. Currently called brasaeatophnombakheng. We found the first name in the inscriptions of the temple in the 16th century.