Uma (consort of Shiva)Khmer (Angkor)Khmer, Bayon and Lopburi
Sacred since
1200 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
c. 1200-1250 (Jayavarman VII)
Khmer (Angkor)
History & significance
A walled Khmer complex of four laterite towers and a cruciform shrine built in the reign of Jayavarman VII, the westernmost surviving Khmer sanctuary in Thailand. An image of Uma recovered here in 1956 marks its Hindu foundation; the site later became a Buddhist wat.