Po Rome

Site common name	Po Rome
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Nha Trang
State	Ninh Thuan
Country	Vietnam
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 11.501389 Long : 108.865556

History of production	The legend narrates that this temple was constructed by King Po Rome, who seems to be one of the later Cham monarchs.
Art	This temple is the last tower in traditional Cham art. Several details of the Cham architectural articulation are now omitted, including the reduction of the number of pilasters. Formerly, it was five in number but Po Rome architects put merely two pilasters, specifically at the corners. However, the spear-liked pointed arch and the lotus-bud-like miniature corner towers are of the same characters as Po Kluang Karai
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Later Period
Age	13th-16th century A.D.
Religion	Brahmanism-Hinduism
Sect	Shaivite
Religion and belief	Because the legend mentions that this temple was constructed by King Po Rome, the statue inside the temple is believed by the locals as the statue of King Po Rome.
Related artwork	Inside the sanctum of Po Rome temple is the statue of multi-headed multi-armed Śiva flanked by the bulls Nandi. This indicates that the temple was dedicated to Shaivaite sect of Hinduism.

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