Prasat Bayon

Year

1190

Type

building

The Bayon is the state temple that Jayavarman VII placed at the exact center of his new capital of Angkor Thom in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The composition reads as a stone temple-mountain: an outer gallery wraps a ra …

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