Angor Wat
Angkor Wat lies 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) north of the modern town of Siem Reap , and a short distance south and slightly east of the previous capital, which was centred at Baphuon . In an area of Cambodia where there is an important group of ancient structures, it is the southernmost of Angkor's main sites. According to legend, the construction of Angkor Wat was ordered by Indra to serve as a palace for his son Precha Ket Mealea. [10] According to the 13th-century Chinese traveller Zhou Daguan , some believed that the temple was constructed in a single night by a divine architect. [11] The initial design and construction of the temple took place in the first half of the 12th century, during the reign of Suryavarman II (ruled 1113 – c. 1150). Dedicated to Vishnu , it was built as the king's state temple and capital city. As neither the foundation stela nor any contemporary inscriptions referring to the temple have been...