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Angkor Wat

Type Object Region Asia Time c. 1113

A Vishnu temple complex built by the Khmer Empire in its Angkor capital in the mid-12th century, its Mount Meru towers, gallery bas-reliefs, and axia…

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  1. c. 1113–1140Angkor capital · AngkorSuryavarman II ordered the construction of a Vishnu temple in the capital, adopting a five-tower Mount Meru design with moat and causeway axis, establishing Angkor Wat's religious-cosmological spatial framework and large-scale sandstone masonry works.
  2. c. 1171–1180Angkor Wat main sanctuary and galleries · AngkorAround 1175, the central tower sanctuary, three-tiered galleries, and large-scale bas-reliefs such as the Churning of the Ocean of Milk were nearing completion, making Angkor Wat the most concentrated material expression of Khmer religious architectural skill and royal ideology.
  3. c. 1200Angkor Archaeological Park · CambodiaIn the later Khmer Empire, Angkor Wat gradually became a Buddhist shrine, and together with the newly built Angkor Thom nearby it formed a religious urban landscape lasting centuries, becoming a reference model for later Southeast Asian stone temples and aesthetics.

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