Angkor Wat

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Site common name	Angkor Wat
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Angkor
State	Siem Reap
Country	Cambodia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 13.412222 Long : 103.866389

History of production	Suryavarman II had the temple of Angkor Wat to be constructed in accordance with the Devarāja cult. Because the king himself followed Vaishnavaite, the supreme god here is Viṣṇu. The temple is extraordinarily west facing temple. Because the west direction is associated with the death, scholars presume that the temple of Angkor Wat is associated with the funeral rite of Suryavarman II.
Art	The temple complex is surrounded by the one-kilometer moat. In the front there is the causeway leading to the main temple. The main temple rests on the triple stepped platforms, each of them is enclosed by the connected gallery. The galleries are punctuated with the gateway in the middle and the tower at the corners. The complex on the top of the platform comprises five towers. This temple is the culmination of the architectural accomplishment as the architects have combined the previous successes of two previous temples, Takeo and Baphoun. While the five set of towers on the top of the platform is the accomplishment of Takeo, the triple galleries are the accomplishment of Baphoun.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Angkor Wat
Age	12th Century A.D.
Religion	Brahmanism-Hinduism
Sect	Vishanu

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali