Key facts
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
- District
- Banteay Srei
- Deity
- Shiva and Parvati with many other Hindu deities
- Location
- Angkor
- State
- Siem Reap
- Country
- Cambodia
- Type
- Khmer
- Creator
- Yajnavaraha
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Country
- Cambodia
- Located in
- Siem Reap
- Area
- 2000
- Image
- Banteay Srei full2.jpg
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- architect
- Rajendravarman II
- Commons category
- Banteay Srei
- inception
- 0967-00-00
- culture
- Khmer Empire
- different from
- Banteay Srei District
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Encyclopedic overview
Banteay Srei (Khmer: បន្ទាយស្រី [ɓɑntiəj srəj]) is a 10th century CE Cambodian temple dedicated to the Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati. Located in the area of Angkor, it lies near the hill of Phnom Dei, 25 km (16 mi) north-east of the main group of temples that once belonged to the medieval capitals of Yaśodharapura and Angkor Thom. Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today. The buildings themselves are miniature in scale, unusually so when measured by the standards of Angkorian construction. These factors have made the temple extremely popular with tourists, and have led to its being widely praised as the jewel of Khmer art.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Banteay Srei” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.