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Temple Wat Building

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Building of Temple Wat Phnom

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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.

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