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High medieval · Hindu · Thailand
Prasat Phanom Wan
Ban Pho, Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Ratchasima · 15.0251°, 102.1940°
Maheshwara (Shiva)Khmer (Angkor)Khmer
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
11th c.; stone sanctuary 13th-14th c.
Khmer (Angkor)
History & significance
A Khmer sanctuary outside Khorat, founded in the 11th century for Maheshwara and rebuilt in sandstone in the 13th-14th centuries, with a main prang of three arched gateways joined to a surrounding cloister. It later passed into Buddhist use and was listed as an ancient monument by the Fine Arts Department in 1936.