Known for its monumental Angkor-era style gate, Sangke Pagoda is a contemporary monastery and pagoda, located in the heart of central Battambang city just west of the river.
Historical Notes
This pagoda, named Wat-Song-Ke, is a stone chapel, very small and decorated with a facade quite similar to those of the most modest village churches; it rarely opens its wooden door, the guard of which is entrusted to monks, and its interior, filled with Buddhas large and small, or gifts offered to Buddha, is a veritable museum. I particularly admired a pair of elephant tusks measuring 2.25 meters in length. Their size does not exceed 20 centimeters; it is a distinctive character of the Asian elephant to possess long and thin tusks; those of the African elephant are, on the contrary, shorter, but more massive….
Un hiver au Cambodge, M. Edgar Boulangier, 1888
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Site Info
- Site Name: Sangke (V.) Khmer Name: វត្តសង្កែ
- Reference ID: HA30606 | Last Update: February 7th, 2023
- Tags/Group: pa, sema, Temples, Wat
- Location: Battambang Province > Krong Battambang > Sangkat Praek Preah Sdach > Num Krieb Village
