VAT
CHOM SI

 

TEMPLE STYLE: LUANG PRABANG STYLE III
YEAR FOUNDED: 1804
BUILT BY: KING ANOUROUTH

Vat Chom Si has a three-tiered base with lotus flower markers in the four corners. The main body of the stupa itself is square with four seven-tiered bronze parasols in its corners. From foot to tip, the stupa measures twenty-one meters.

Vat Chom Si in
1888

 

INTERESTING STORIES

 

It was restored in 1914 and again in 1936 when the 328-step staircase was built.

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