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ROLUOS GROUP Angkor |
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Roluos's monuments, more known
under the name of Roluos Group were built between years 877 and
889. Situated at 13km of Siem Reap, they are the first temples
"made of hard" built by the Khmers, representing the
beginning of the classic art of Cambodia. Before those of Roluos,
temples were all builts essentially wooden and various light
materials, and resisted little in the years, where from their
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PREAH KO |
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The king Indravarman I,
built this temple at the end of the 9th century, the temple was
dedicated to his ancestors. |
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BAKONG
Temple (Roluos
Group) |
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The Bakong , which always shelters a Buddhist
monastery, is a temple symbolizing the "mountains"
temples which represent the Meru Mountain, center of the universe. |
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LOLEI Temple(Roluos Group) |
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During its construction in 893, this temple
was situated on an island in the center of a huge pond-reservoir
of water which fed the region. |
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A monastery inside the Roluos Group |
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