The sacred geography of the Indic world — every site mapped, dated, storied, and cited.
3031sites15countries4traditions30centuries
Early medieval · Hindu · Thailand
Prasat Kao Noi
Aranyaprathet, Sa Kaeo · 13.5824°, 102.5283°
ShivaChenlaKhmer, late Sambor Prei Kuk to early Prei Kmeng
Sacred since
600 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
7th c.; central tower rebuilt 11th c.
Chenla
History & significance
Three east-facing brick towers on a shared base near Aranyaprathet, put up in the 7th century under Isanavarman I or Bhavavarman II and reckoned the oldest Khmer monument of consequence in Thailand. Lingas and pedestals found here had been broken into fragments, evidence that the shrine was deliberately desecrated.