- Area: Siem Reap Province > Puok District > Khnat Commune > Chrolong Village
- | Type: Ancient Remains & Temples
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the western side of Siem Reap city that was once the location of an ancient temple site. A collection of ancient temple remains can still be seen on site. It has two lines of heritage, one as a 10th century Angkorian era temple site and another as a Buddhist pagoda which dates back over 100 years at least.
As of July/22, the pagoda was under restoration.
Update 2025
On revisiting, I noticed the original sema of the prior iteration of pagoda/vihara, sema pedestal, and the old wooden beams.
Historical Notes
Vat Prasat (The temple pagoda). It is located about 6 kilometers to the north a little east of Prasat Prei Donghöm. Its huts and its vihara occupy the site of an ancient Brahmanic temple of which only the remains of a group of three small brick sanctuaries, regularly placed on the same north-south line and oriented to the east; razed to the height of the doors, the remaining parts have, however, been preserved and cleared of the debris which encumbered them. These doors are very low and measure only 0.75m by 0.55m of opening, that of the central sanctuary having slightly larger dimensions.
Various sculpted sandstone pieces, obviously from these edifices, were used, with limonite blocks, for the base of the modern vihara; decorative lintels of type III and fragments of statuettes were also collected in a small temporary construction to the east of the vihara.
Pretty moated basins and a rectangular saras to the east surrounded the temple.
Lajonquiere, 1911
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Site Info
- Site Name: Prasat (V.) Khmer Name: វត្តបា្រសាទ
- Reference ID: HA11769 | Last Update: January 30th, 2025
- Tags/Group: Angkor, sema, Temples, Wat
- Location: Siem Reap Province > Puok District > Khnat Commune > Chrolong Village
- MoCFA ID: 486
- IK Number: 591
