Baphuon Temple

Bapuon Temple is at the north of Bayon temple about 200 meters; and it adjoins the southern wall of ex-Royal Palace—Phimeanakas Temple. Bapuon is a temple which constructed as a pyramid mountain. It was built in 1060 of the reign of the king Udyadityavarman II who held to the throne from AD 1050 to 1066.The pyramid was the state monument of the king and the house of the empire’s master-idol—the Shivalinga. It was the largest and the most impressive pyramid temple of the Angkor at its time, and it demonstrated the king’s desire to build a larger temple than his predecessors.
The temple was built in a rectangular enclosure measuring 425 meters east-west by 125 meters north-south. The enclosure includes access at east and three gates at each of cardinal point. Its outer eastern Gopura lies on the same longitudinal axis as the Elephant Terrace, which also aligns with the central tower of the Bayon.

The construction stands on a base having 130 meters east-west and 104 meters north-south, and with over 50 meters in height (but now because of the disappearance of the eight-meter-high central tower and broken down of the temple, its height remains only 34,8. It faces to the east.