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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!

Wat Preah Houch

A small pagoda housing several relics of an ancient site including a Buddhist chaitya/boundary marker and several pedestals.

Wat Chi Kreang

Also recorded as Wat Chikreng, and Prasat Chikreng, it’s a contemporary monastery and pagoda that hosts an array of remains from ancient temple sites. The ancient remnants presented at the site, and the wider area, have a heritage in the 10th-11th century and also from sometime around the 18-19th century, perhaps earlier, noting historical images … Read more

Wat Kakoh (Santuk)

Buddhist monastery housing ancient remains including inscribed stele (registered under K. 146), sema stone, lintels, and pedestals. The pagoda is quite unusual formed in a cross rising up on a double-tiered platform with its doors boarded shut, hopefully in lieu of restoration works. On the east side of the pagoda are two shelters containing relics … Read more

Wat Monthien

A contemporary monastery and pagoda located atop a small rise that runs parallel to the road to Kampong Khleang. According to reports (cisark), a fragment of an inscribed sema stone was found here.

Wat Prasat Andaet (Komar Village – Kampong Cham)

Located on the grounds of a contemporary monastery, the ancient moat still surrounds the site where a pagoda has been built adjacent to the ancient remains. The remains of the ancient site, originally a brick temple, were at some point rearranged into a vihara and you can still see the elongated arrangement of laterite blocks … Read more

Wat Preah Vihear Khpuos

A contemporary monastery and pagoda that once had an old wooden vihara hall demarcated by ornate sema stones also featuring a stupa (refer Cisark #1615). Today, a new pagoda is under construction. Near the pagoda, a shelter housing remnants of an ancient temple can be seen including a sandstone spout, plinths, and a moonstone (doorstep).

Prasat Reangsey Pagoda

Contemporary pagoda that is built on a moated ancient site. On the east, you can see a neak ta shelter housing various small fragments of the old site. On the west of the pagoda there is an interesting shrine housing more remnants of the ancient site. The monastery complex is quite large and one of … Read more

Wat Kraom

Monastery built upon the site of an ancient temple, also where an inscribed stele was found believed to have originated from Wat Lo

Wat Sala (Soutr Nikom District)

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

Wat Leu

Also recorded as Vat Lo, Chean Chum, Pothivong Leu Pagoda, Can Cum, and Vat Pothivon Leu… It’s a contemporary monastery that is built upon a base of laterite likely originating from an ancient temple site. It is also the origin of inscriptions recorded under

Wat Samrong

Contemporary monastery and pagoda where two ancient temples sites and remnants were discovered including an inscription from the 8th century registered under K. 29.

Wat Ampil

Contemporary monastery holding remnants of an ancient temple including a lintel carved in red sandstone.

Wat Ounalom

Also recorded as Wat Unnalom, and located in central Phnom Penh just north of the Royal Palace. It is one of the five original pagodas of the city dating back to the 15th century along with being the seat of the Mahanikaya sect of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodia. The name Wat Unnalom refers to an … Read more

Wat Pongro/Samrong Temple

Contemporary monastery and pagoda that is located on what was once an ancient temple site. No remains of the ancient site were seen but the pagoda is quite characterful and the sema inside the pagoda seem as though they may be quite old.