Ta Prohm Kel
Ta Prohm Kel is a Bayon style chapel in Angkor . It is located immediately west of the moat encompassing Angkor Wat north of the main entrance.
Ta Prohm Kel is one of the 102 chapels that were built together with hospitals under Jayavarman VII . Like the other buildings of this type, it has a prasat with an eastern portico and three false portals, a small library to the south-east of it and a surrounding wall with gopuram . In Ta Prohm Kel only the Prasat and the Gopuram have survived as ruins, as well as small remains of the wall ring. The wooden structures to accommodate the patients and staff no longer exist. The corners of the tower of Prasat are each decorated with two devatas . A similar hospital chapel has been preserved near Ta Keo . To the north of the Prasat there was a somasutra that ran through the northern perimeter wall , which is a channel through which holy water was drawn outside from the sanctuary.
The French architect Henri Marchal , who researched Angkor on behalf of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and conserved the buildings, freed Ta Prohm Kel from the vegetation in 1919 and carried out the first conservation work.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Marilia Albanese: Angkor . National Geographic Art Guide. Ed .: National Geographic Society . G + J / RBA GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937606-77-4 , p. 174, 175 (Italian: I tesori di Angkor . Translated by Wolfgang Hensel).
- ↑ Michael Freeman, Claude Jacques: Ancient Angkor . 2nd Edition. River Books Ltd, Bangkok 2003, ISBN 974-8225-27-5 , pp. 68 (English).
- ^ Maurice Glaize: Les Monuments du groupe d'Angkor . 4th edition. Adrien-Maisonneuve, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7200-1091-X , p. 73 (French, 285 p., Translation into English by Nils Tremmel [PDF; 8.0 MB ; accessed on August 11, 2011] First edition: Portail, Saigon 1944).
Coordinates: 13 ° 24 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 103 ° 51 ′ 31.1 ″ E