Wat Prey Phlu
Also known as Wat Trapeang Rong, it’s a uniquely small pagoda surrounded by ornate sema stones.
A map of Wats and Pagodas in Cambodia including those visited and planning to visit. For the most part, these are pagodas connected with ancient sites and those visited along the journey in between. It’s a relatively small map considering that according to the Ministry of Cults and Religion (via Khmer Times), Cambodia has 5,104 Buddhist pagodas with 70,905 monks!
Also known as Wat Trapeang Rong, it’s a uniquely small pagoda surrounded by ornate sema stones.
Contemporary monastery featuring remnants of an ancient site. A new pagoda is nearing completion (12/22) and nearby a smaller contemporary shrine and older vihara house several remnants of an ancient site including a sandstone bollard carved with a Buddha image and in the older vihara, several sandstone plinths. Note the wooden sema delimiting the sacred … Read more
Contemporary pagoda and monastery located in the plains just north of the Tonle Sap featuring remnants of an ancient site. I couldn’t correlate the site to any of the older inventories, but that doesn’t mean it’s unknown, unless, it turns out to be Prasat Phung Phang from Lajonquire’s 1902 inventory. En route to temple sites, … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda with an old stupa, located in the eastern region of Kampong Speu.
A beautiful contemporary monastery and pagoda with unique design features, also featuring several older stupas.
Located east of the main road that joins Kouk Mon with Prasat Ta Muen Thom, Wat Prey Veng features a fascinating collection of ancient temple relics gathered from the surrounding area. The relics are numerous, much of it likely dating to around the 11th century including a torso of a small statue, a torso of … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda that retains its older traditional wooden salaa and vihara whilst a new pagoda is under construction (01/23)
Contemporary Monastery and pagoda with an interesting stupa. Images: April 2022.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located north of Oudong Mountain in Kandal Province.
Monastery with ancient temple remains and two pagodas. Above the balan inside the larger pagoda there’s a large and beautiful chaitya from an ancient temple and inside the smaller pagoda there are also several ancient temple remnants.
Located on the way to Angkor Archeological Park via Apsara Road. A rural wat with not too much happening bar the newish and quite beautiful Vihear. Location: Several minutes out of the city center on the Apsara Road towards Angkor
Labelled on Google Maps as Two Pursat Pagoda, it’s a monastery with a relatively new pagoda. A small shrine beside the pagoda houses a number of remnants, some look old, some look ancient, in particular, what looks like the head of Avalokiteshvara. Another two shrines house local folklore icons, Preah Ko Preah Keo and another … Read more
Also recorded as Wat Ampil, it is located near the east bank of the Mekong River in lower Kampong Cham Province, just southeast of Wat Svay Sach. It is also one of the older pagodas in the area and noting the sandstone pieces gathered around the side of the pagoda, it may have a heritage … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located in Phumi Treas of Svay Chek district. Several remnants of an ancient temple are seen in shelters and surrounds.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located just northwest of the village of Pyuor Chruk.
Located around 10km west of Kampong Cham city the contemporary monastery features an old library that was built by the French, at a guess, around 70 years ago. The village area here is quite beautiful, especially if following the trail from the nearby Wat Koh Roka. Under the Boddhi tree there is what appears to … Read more
An older pagoda located on the west bank of the Mekong River in lower Kampong Cham Province, also recorded as Wat Rokar. On our last visit, Aug 2023, a new pagoda is under construction. Hopefully, the old pagoda will be preserved as it features some unique art and character, an example of which is the … Read more
Located in the south of the city of Kratie, Wat Rokar (វត្តរការកណ្តាលចាស់) was built in the 18th century and, which is rare to see today, it features beautiful wooden pillars and internal frame with a tiled roof. It has been restored in recent times and functions as a local crafts center during tourist season. It’s … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda, the old pagoda is located by the river opposite.
An old and characterful contemporary monastery and pagoda located around 17km east of the Siem Reap city center and 3km east of Prasat Bakong. It is one of the areas older pagodas and features an interesting stupa. These photos are from 2019
Contemporary monastery and pagoda and provenance of an inscribed stele registered under K. 27 which is stored at the nearby Angkor Borei Museum. The contemporary pagoda we see today retains fragments of its important post and pre-Angkorian era heritage with sandstone pedestals implanted and used to demarcate the pagoda itself. Historical Images The images below … Read more
A beautiful old contemporary monastery and pagoda that’s under restoration (as of mid-2022)
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the west bank of the Sanker River in central Battambang.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda, located on the western bank of the Mekong River. Also recorded as Soporkiriram Pagoda (Khmer វត្តសុពណ៌គិរីរាម ជ្រោយអំពិល)
Also recorded as Wat Sovan Seila (Khmer: វត្តសុវណ្ណសិលា), it’s a contemporary monastery and pagoda that retains the remnants of an ancient temple site perhaps dating to the tenth century. Nearby the pagoda is a collection of remnants of the ancient temple that may have dated to around the 10th century including a decorated pilaster, statuette … Read more
A contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the north side of Oudong Mountain. At the steps to the pagoda, an ancient linga is seen along with a “mini-prasat” that was often used as corner finials on Angkorian-era temples. Resting beside that finial is a remnant from a post-Angorian era Buddhist Terrace. Historical Notes In VAT … Read more