Temple Wat Building photo copyrighted by: Kazuo Lim Khee Boon According to legend, in the 14th century a woman named
Penh found sacred Buddhist objects in the nearby river
and placed them here on the small hill that later became a temple. In 1372 she built a hill and a placed a shrine on top of this to house the precious artefacts.
Find more Wat Phnom images in the Cambodia gallery of Photorena.
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