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Title	Angkor Wat [site]
Alternate Title	Prasat Angkor Wat
View	South gallery, east wing, Three Worlds frieze; upper registers, the fortunate go to heaven screened by parasols
Notes	In the east wing of the south gallery a frieze 66 m long shows the dead marching to the court of Yama, the god of death, and their subsequent sojourns in heaven and hell (with earth, the three worlds). There are 32 hells and 37 heavens specified in Hindu mythology
Work Type	buildings religious buildings temples complexes sites (locations) historic sites
Style/Period	Angkorean Suryavarman II
Creator Name	unknown
Creator Nationality	Cambodian
Subject.work	architecture deities rulers and leaders Hindu Buddhist Khmer Khmers
Country	Cambodia
City	Angkor Wat
State/Province	Siem Reab
Location.Notes	Siem Reap (near); located about one mile south of Angkor (deserted settlement)
Architectural Material	sandstone; brick; laterite
Technique	carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Dates	ca. 1113-1177 (creation)
Photographer	Donais, Andre
Date Photographed	2/21/2011
Subject Information	Angkor Wat is a Hindu temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and part of his capital city. (The Angkorian period dates 802-1432). As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation--first Hindu, dedicated to the god Vishnu, then Buddhist. Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple mountain and the later galleried temple, based on early South Indian Hindu architecture. It is designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the devas in Hindu mythology: within a moat and an outer wall 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) long are three rectangular galleries, each raised above the next. At the centre of the temple stands a quincunx of towers. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Angkor Wat is oriented to the west (because of its original dedication to Vishnu). The lower gallery (third enclosure) of the temple precinct, barely 5 m wide, is bordered on the outside by a double row of columns. On the inside, however, is a stone wall on which the reliefs are carved running round the entire temple complex. They are about 2 m high and more than 500 m long and cover an area of well over 1000 sq. m. The relief is so shallow that they have been described as 'frescoes in stone', and originally they may indeed have been partly painted. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Information.source	Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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