Eastern Mebon
Eastern Mebon. Date: 952. King: Rajendravarman II. Cult: Bramanic (Shiva)
Located 500m north of Pre Rup. The monument was built in the middle o the artificial lake of the king Yashovarman I. It was an Island temple as Lokei. Eastern Barrya which was excavated by Yashovarman I (ruled 889-910), who marked its four corners with steles. The Eastern Baray which was a large body of lake(2km by 7km ) fed by the Siem Reap River and was the most important of the public works of Yasodharapura, Yasovarman I’s capital.
The East Mebon is a temple with five towers arranged like the numbers on a die atop a base with three tiers. The whole is surrounded by three enclosures. The towers represent the five peaks of the mythical Mount Meru. This Hindu temple is very similar in design though smallest in size to the Pre Rup temple, which was built 15 to 20 years later and lies immediately to the south.
|