The Angkor Wat Temple of the Hindu God Vishnu
The Angkor Wat is one in every of the magnificent temple to the Hindu god Vishnu that was in-built the twelfth century in what’s currently Cambodia, when town of Angkor, the capital of the Khmer empire was at the peak of its glory. Conceived by the King Suryavarman II (1113 to 1150) as style of imitation mountain to correspond to the universe of Hindu cosmology, it consists 5of 5} towers representing the five peaks of Mount of Meru the house of the gods and center of the Hindu universe. These 5 towers, the central one in every of that in 215 feet tall and displayed on the Cambodian flag. A moat and 3 galleries surround the towers. Angkor wat took thirty years to make, covers nearly a sq. mile of 4250 by 5000 feet and is claimed to contain the maximum amount stone because the nice Pyramid in Egypt.