Ta Prohm
Also known as Rajavihara
1186
Medieval
temple
Ta Prohm is the Buddhist monastic temple that Jayavarman VII dedicated in 1186 as Rajavihara, raised about a kilometer east of Angkor Thom and consecrated to his mother. The complex is laid out as a walled monastic city rather than as a…
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- 1900-1999
The monument was deliberately left part-overgrown so that strangler-fig and silk-cotton roots remained entangled with the masonry, while unstable areas were consolidated rather than dismantled.
- 2000-2009
Indian and Cambodian teams undertook conservation and restoration work at Ta Prohm under the Angkor international coordination framework.
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