East Mebon

 

 

King Rajendravarman II, The East Mebon and its neighbor Pre Rup were build by the same king, just mine years apart and are similar in plan, construction and decoration. A major deference , however, is that the East Mebon once stood on a small island in the middle of the Eastern Baray, which was a large body of water(2 by 7Kms) fed by the Siem Reap river. The only access was by boat to one of the four landing platforms, situated at the mid-points on each of four sides of the temple. Today, The Baray, once a resource of water irrigation, is left to imagine the original majesty of this temple in the middle of a large lake.