Cambodia's Angkor Wat featured on Wiki

Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

Jungle overtakes the wat ruins.

Angkor Wat is a massive Buddhist and Hindu temple (wat) complex in the formerly enormous city of Angkor in Cambodia, which was once the largest megalopolis in the world with a million or so residents by some estimates as revealed by LiDAR.

It was built in the capital city for King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as the state temple. The largest and best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center — first Hindu then Buddhist — since its foundation.

The temple is the epitome of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and is the country's prime attraction for foreign visitors.

Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture, the temple mountain and the later galleried temple.

It is designed to represent Mount Meru (Mt. Sumeru), home of the space-devas in Hindu and Buddhist mythology and cosmology.

At the center of the temple stands a quincunx of towers. The temple is admired for it grandeur and  the harmony of its architecture and for the extensive bas-reliefs and the numerous devas ("shining ones") adorning its walls.

Unusually, Angkor Wat faces west; scholars are divided as to the significance of this. More