Angkor Wat or Nokor Wat ( English: Angkor Wat) or (Nokor Wat) is the largest temple in Cambodia with an area of ​​162.6 hectares (1,626,000 m2). The structure of the temple is considered to be the pinnacle of the wonders of the world, built in the 12th century by King Suryavarman II, the king of the Khmer Empire. Given the Hindu religion of Vishnu, Angkor Wat is considered to be the largest religious temple in the world on the Guinness Book of World Records in 1985.

Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat temple built by King Suryavarman II (AD 1122)
Name	Angkor Wat
Builder	Suryavarman II
Year of construction	AD (1122)
Architecture	Angkor II
Art of decoration	Angkor Wat style
World record	Guinness World Records (1985)
Announcement of UNESCO	December 14, 1992
Listed as a World Heritage Site	World Heritage Site
Link	Angkor World Heritage Site- UNESC

Temple History

Angkor Wat was built in 1122 AD, corresponding to the 12th century during the reign of Suryavarman II, which was built for his many purposes, dedicated to the gods. Vishnu commemorates his work, giving him a heavenly place when he dies in the future.  The temple of Angkor Wat was abandoned by the invasion of the Siamese army during the 14th century by the first king of Angkor Panya Yat, who announced the departure of Angkor in 1388 AD, according to genealogy. The historical record of Cambodia in the document of Khmer Great Men in 1929, was translated by Eng Suth in 1969. The temples of Angkor Wat continued to be abandoned until King Chan Reach, who raised the Longvek army to defeat the Siamese in the Angkor area in 1540 AD, later restored the temples of Angkor Wat. The sculpture gallery is on the northeast side and another gallery is on the north side, while the upper part of the central tower is decorated with four statues of Buddha standing facing each other facing the four main directions. -Left-foot-gems, which are placed to close the openings of the central tower of the cube, where the sculptures show carvings in different forms of the sculptor’s hand.

The first European to discover the temples of Angkor Wat in 1586 AD was “Antonio da Magdalena”. (Portuguese) who recorded the discovery of Angkor Wat with a description of his journey into the deep forest and spotted several temples in the forest with the top five temples of the same style as The lotus that inspired them to make notes from this magnificent temple. Three years later, in 1589 CE, another Portuguese historian, Diago do Couto, discovered a temple in Angkor with a description of He described the features he saw in the temple, which looked like a corner of a city in the shape of a palace, surrounded by moats and five bridges across the gates, with rope-shaped statues and Long ears too, which is probably Angkor Thom.

The arrival of Japanese in the 17th century during the reign of His Majesty the King through a ship merchant by “Kenryo Shimano” from “Nagasaki” who founded Angkor Wat in 1632 AD, he painted sketches of Angkor Wat with paintings of large temples and paintings of many temples through the discovery of Angkor This pagoda coincides with the genealogical records of the history of Cambodia, which records the relics of the monks who went to be monks at Nokor Wat in the name of Ang Panha To in 1630 AD, recorded in Documents of the great Khmer men in 1929 that indicate that Keny Ishimano was also a Buddhist missionary.

Discovery of Angkor Wat by Charles-Emile Bouillevaux, a French missionary and explorer who visited Angkor in December 1850 and published The story of his exploration of Cambodia in 1858, two years before the arrival of “Henri Mouhot” in 1860 AD. Charlie Immunel arrived in Cochinchina in 1849 and continued his exploration and discovery of Angkor Wat in 1850, and a few months later he stayed with the Phnong people in the northeast. Cambodia and traveled from Sambo to Ha-Tien for nine days, then stayed in Laos in 1853, then returned to Cambodia in 1855, came to Battambang province, then returned to Europe to serve As archbishop of “Choquan” from 1867 to 1873, it was not until 1878 that he published his expedition to Cambodia. However, his publication was later published by Henry Mohat, who published his journal and illustrations related to Angkor Wat.

The first publication of the famous “Henri Mouhot”‘s journey through Indochina. Henry Muhatt was a philosopher and self-portrait naturist. He was born on May 15, 1826, in Montbeliard, France, and died in Naphan. (Naphan) Laos with malaria on November 10, 1861. Henry Muhatt began his exploration of Southeast Asia in 1856 with the support of the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom. No purpose for natural science research at that time.
The journal and letter of “Henri Alexandre Mouhot” sent to his wife and brother “Charles Mouhot” were later compiled in the book The Journey. To the Kingdom of Siam, Cambodia, and Laos “Voyage dans les Royaumes de Siam, de Cambodge et de Laos (1868) For the French public became a sensation for his description of Angkor Wat, which he reached to the south. In January 1860. If he was not the first Westerner to discover this Angkor Wat temple, though his vivid, detailed, and well-written relationship was given to him in later times, it would have given him a reputation. As for the cause of his work, he also rediscovered the temples of Angkor Wat.

Angkor Wat was built in 1122 AD, corresponding to the 12th century during the reign of Suryavarman II, this temple was dedicated to the Brahmin religion of Vishnu. Angkor Wat has a total height of 65 meters and a total of 1,532 pillars and employs a total of 300,000 (300,000 people), built on an area of ​​162.6 hectares over a total area of ​​402 hectares and It uses about 6,000 elephants to transport about 10 million tons of large pieces of rock, with a construction time of about 28 years. Angkor Wat is designed in the style of Mount Meru, the abode of deities or deities in Hindu mythology. 16 kilometers. The actual farm of the temple is 1,500 meters long and 1,300 meters wide, the main road from the west to the central temple is 250 meters long and the outer wall is 3.6 kilometers, equal to 2.2 miles long. Is a three-cornered gallery, each of which rises to the adjoining gallery in the center of the temple, standing in a rectangular row of towers. The top of the temple is shaped like a lotus, and the top of Angkor Wat has five peaks representing the five elements (5 Khandha), which are the five elements of human beings. About the body. Features include Selt Form, Misery, Perception, Judgment, and Conscience Angkor Wat faces west, representing the end of the sun’s orbit. Travel from the sunrise of the east and die in the west.