Top 5 Most Beautiful World Heritage Temples in Southeast Asia

Beautiful World Heritage Temples in Southeast Asia - Southeast Asia has a rich culture with a long history, all the history wrapped and revealed a variety of historic Temples owned by the countries in Southeast Asia, the Temples is a unique medium that describes how the situation in the past, which is described by its unique architectural form and diverse, and these Temples have become some of the world heritage, and become an attractive tourist destination so that these buildings become a trademark of the state owner. Here are some Beautiful World Heritage Temples is very suitable to visit in Southeast Asia

Borobudur Temple

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Brororobudur temple located in Indonesia precisely located in Magelang, Central Java. This temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the world, founded by the followers of Mahayana Buddhist. This temple was founded in the 8th century and 9th even the temple has been standing a long time before Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Borobudur has an area of 123x123 meters with a height of 35 meters with 504 Buddha statues, stupas overlay 72, and the first stupa, the temple was orchestrated by Gunadharma and built for about 75 years. While visiting Borobudur impression of grandeur emitted is a Buddhist who was once signed in and a belief the majority of people around at that time, seen from the many statues of Buddha that were in this temple, and until now this temple used as tourist attractions and pilgrimage by followers Buddhist religion, many tourists and pilgrims from within the country and abroad visited the place that has been used as a UNESCO world heritage site that is very famous.

Angkor Wat

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The amazing Angkor Wat has always been a great attraction for cambodia, during this cambodia have a building that has a high historical form of the temple which was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II and built for about 30 years. Formerly goal king Suryavarman II built the temple angkor wat is intended as an offering to Lord Shiva for the people of the Hindu religion.

Angkor wat is a tourist place most visited by tourists, in fact about 50% of foreign tourists who visited in Cambodia aims to visit Angkor Wat and Angkor Wat temple is a remarkable, because it becomes the Reviews largest religious monument in the world. Angkor wat has a very majestic architecture of the building is equipped with a relief, there is some relief dinosaurs here, but this is still a puzzle unanswered. Angkor Wat and was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992.

Prambanan Temple

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Prambanan is a magnificent temple is located in Indonesia, this temple is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia, and the construction of the building is expected to take place in about the 9th century, and this temple has a real name in Sanskrit is Siwagrha (Sanskrit: Shiva-grha that means: 'House of Shiva') or Siwalaya (Sanskrit: Shiva-laya which means: 'Realm of Shiva' or 'Natural Shiva').

This temple has the shape of a conical shape from the bottom to the top, and has three main temple is a temple Trimurti (three states), each temple is a tribute to three different gods, the temple dedicated to Lord Brahma the creator and Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, but the temple to Lord Shiva who is the biggest temple and the highest among the three. Shiva temple has a height of 47 meters and width of 34 meters and has a peak crown that has meaning diamond or thunderbolt, Siwa temple also has a relief that tells the story of Ramayana, while the next temple temple of Brahma and Vishnu have the same size that is 20 meters wide and 33 meters high , with a space for offerings to the gods Brahma and Vishnu. The building is designated as a world heritage in 1991.

Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary

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Mỹ Sơn is a Hindu temple offerings made to Lord Shiva, this temple is located in Vietnam and was built between 4-14 th century, this temple was built by the kings of Champa, Mỹ Sơn has the possibility of becoming the longest inhabited archaeological site in Indochina, but most architecture destroyed by US bombing during the war with Vietnam.Kuil has a beautiful shape of the building, the building also has its own impression with overgrown with plants in several parts, ni buildings also have high artistic side and a very high historical value as well. As of 1999, Mỹ Sơn has been Recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site.

Temple of Preah Vihear

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Preah Vihear temple is located in cambodia, location of the temple is located at an altitude of 525 m in the mountains Dangrek, in the province of Preah Vihear, Cambodia and near the district of Kantharalak, Thailand, at the same time makes this temple becomes the highest temple in cambodia, located adjacent between the two countries make a conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, but in the end the International Court established that Cambodia became the official owner of the Preah Vihear temple.

It was built as an offering to Lord Shiva symbolizes Mount Meru, the abode of the gods of the mountain. From this temple we foam get a superb view, where the temple is located in the border area so as far as the eye could see we could see the country of Thailand and Laos from the top of the temple. Preah Vihear temple has been Recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site.

Southeast Asia has a very long history, some of the temples above prove how long history has passed through the formation of state owners, relief is engraved on the temple became a clue about something that happened in the past, the kings were ruling also shows how much the power they have of temples being built, and the average of the temple is used for offerings to the gods means. The temples are a world heritage that has been there from hundreds of years ago, now we have to keep as possible, up to the future, these temples can still be seen by our children in the future.