Angkor Wat is a temple or temple is located in the city of Angkor in Cambodia. This temple was built by King Suryavarman II in the mid-12th century. Angkor Wat temple construction took 30 years. Angkor Wat is located in the plain of Angkor temples which are also filled with beautiful buildings, but Angkor Wat is the most famous temples of the Angkor plain. King Suryavarman II ordered the construction of Angkor Wat, according to Hindu belief that put the Meru mountain as the center of the world and is home to Hindu deities, with the central tower of Angkor Wat is the highest tower and the main Angkor Wat tower building complex.
As mythological Mount Meru, the temples of Angkor Wat is surrounded by a wall and channel represents the ocean and the mountains around the world. Angkor Wat entrance half km fence railings decorated railing and flanked by an artificial lake called Baray. The entrance to Angkor Wat through the door, representing the rainbow bridge that connects between the world and the nature of the natural gods.
Angkor Wat is in good shape compared to other temples of the Angkor plain due to Angkor Wat was turned into a Buddhist temple and maintained and used continuously when replacing Hinduism Buddhism in Angkor the 13th century. Angkor once colonized by Siam in 1431.
In 1992, Angkor Wat in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The modern name Angkor Wat means "City Temple"; Angkor is the change in shape of the word នគរ Nokor derived from the word nagara in Sanskrit means the capital or country wat is the term Khmer temple or temple Original name.. this temple is the Preah Pisnulok or Vishnuloka (where Lord Vishnu resides), based on the posthumous name of the builder king, Suryavarman II.
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