One of the largest religious buildings in the world

Belief is a person’s free choice, and religious buildings also reflect the differences in religion to a certain extent. Let’s take a look at the world’s largest religious building? Angkor Wat.

One of the largest religious buildings in the world, Angkor Wat (Angkor Wat), also known as Angkor Temple, is located in Cambodia and is known as the national treasure of Cambodia. It is the largest temple in the world and the earliest Gothic building in the world.

The original name of Angkor Wat is Vrah Vishnulok, which means "Vishnu's Temple". Ancient Chinese Buddhist books call it "Sangxiang Buddha House".

In the 12th century, King Suryavarman II of the Angkor Dynasty wanted to build a magnificent cave temple on the ground as the capital and national temple of the Angkor Dynasty.

Therefore, it took a nationwide effort and took about 35 years to build.

It is the best-preserved building among the Angkor monuments and is world-famous for its architectural grandeur and detailed reliefs.

In 1992, UNESCO listed the Angkor monuments as a World Cultural Heritage.

Since then, Angkor Wat has become the most important tourist attraction in Angkor and has become a bright tourist card in Cambodia.

For more than a hundred years, countries around the world, including China, have invested a lot of money and manpower in the maintenance of Angkor Wat to protect this world cultural heritage.

The shape of Angkor Wat has become a national symbol of Cambodia and is displayed on the Cambodian flag.

The British "Guardian" reported on June 11, 2016 that an archaeological team led by Australian archaeologist Damian Evans used airborne lidar to detect an area of ??approximately 1,900 square kilometers in 2015. After image and data analysis,

Restore the ruins of several cities under this tropical rainforest.

The overall layout of Angkor Wat can be clearly seen from the air by taking a hot air balloon: a rectangular moat as bright as a mirror, surrounding a rectangular oasis full of lush trees, and the oasis is surrounded by a temple wall.

The building in the middle of the oasis is the Hindu-style Temple of Mount Sumeru in Angkor Wat Temple.

Angkor Wat Temple faces east and west.

A long embankment from due west to due east crosses the moat and leads directly to the west gate of the temple wall.

After passing the west gate, there is another long road, passing through the green grassland, directly to the west gate of the temple.

On the highest floor of the pyramid-style temple, five pagodas can be seen standing, like five-point plum blossoms on a dice. Four of them are smaller, arranged in four corners.

The spacing between the pagodas is wide, and there are corridors connecting the pagodas. In addition, each floor of the Mount Sumeru Vajra Altar is surrounded by corridors, which is a characteristic of Angkor Wat architecture.

The steps there are steep and require hands and feet to climb up.

This means that people have to go through many hardships to reach heaven.

Only one has handrails because during colonial times an official’s wife fell down this staircase and died.

Scenic Area Introduction Bakheng Mountain Bakheng Mountain is a small hill within the main ruins of Angkor. It is 1.5 kilometers northwest of Angkor Wat and is 67 meters high. It is the only commanding height nearby. You can ride an elephant up the mountain.

There is an Angkor temple ruins on the hill. It was the first national temple built by Yasovarman I after he began to make the area near Angkor Thom his capital. It also laid the foundation for the subsequent Angkor architecture.

Although the Phnom Bakheng Temple on the top of the mountain has long been ruined, it was the first temple built by the Khmer Dynasty when it moved its capital to Angkor, and is known as the "First Angkor".

To the west of the mountain is the open West Baray, and in the jungle to the southeast is Angkor Wat.

From here you can see the Thai-Cambodian border to the north.

There is a 650-meter-long and 436-meter-wide rectangular ditch outside the Bakken Temple. It may be the waterproofing project of the old capital building of Rollos and used in the new building. It symbolizes the Aral Sea surrounding Mount Meru in the center of the world in Indian mythology.

Bakheng Temple is built on a flat mountain top.

The Bakken Temple built on the top of Bakken Mountain reflects the Khmer people's worship of the mountain at that time.

This building that symbolizes the entire universe is full of symbolic symbols in its design: 7-story platform: represents the seven heavens, and the top tower represents the center of the universe; 108 towers: In addition to the central tower, there are 108 towers on the lower six floors.

Small pagodas, representing the 108 days of the four phases; 33 pagodas: Looking at Bakheng Temple from the central axis of each side, you can only see 33 pagodas, representing the 33 gods on Mount Sumeru. Queen's Palace in Cambodia

There are thousands of ancient civilization ruins in the Angkor area, among which there is a seemingly fiery red temple called the "Women's Castle".

The "Women's Castle" located in the west of Siam Rei Province, was originally called "Bandesrei". Translated from Cambodian, it means "seeking happiness". The locals are accustomed to calling this place the "Queen's Palace" because it is in

The center of the temple is engraved with many statues of the goddess Apsara, hence its name.