- Area: Siem Reap Province > Chi Kraeng District > Khvav Commune > Khvav Village
- | Type: Ancient Remains & Temples
Also recorded as Chass Pagoda, it’s a contemporary monastery and pagoda featuring remnants of an ancient temple. Remnants include a large collection of laterite, some shaped, gathered by a tree. Also, ancient or contemporary, what appears to be a laterite causeway leading east from the contemporary vihara and an overgrown mound of pieces. In a shrine by the east side of the pagoda, a collection of pieces, including a bollard, sema, and the arm/s of a statue. Inside the vihara, a collection of Buddhist boundary markers.
It would appear that its an ancient site that has been redeveloped in the post-Angkor era (post14/15th century) as a Thervadin Buddhist site with similarities to sites of the same era in Angkor. In the last decade, the old wooden vihara that topped the site was replaced with the pagoda we see today.
Google Maps features a Streetview image taken in 2014 showing the original pagoda where you can see the laterite terrace topped by a wooden vihara and demarcated at its corners by bollards and sema.
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Site Info
- Site Name: Chas (V) Khmer Name: វត្តចាស់
- Reference ID: HA34572 | Last Update: February 7th, 2023
- Other Names: វត្តចាស់, Chass Pagoda
- Tags/Group: Ancient Royal Road, pa, pr, Royal Road Beng Mealea-Preah Khan of Kampong Svay, sema, Temples, Wat
- Location: Siem Reap Province > Chi Kraeng District > Khvav Commune > Khvav Village
