VAT
KHILI

 

TEMPLE STYLE: LUANG PRABANG STYLE II
YEAR FOUNDED: UNKNOWN
BUILT BY: PHUOANE PRINCE & CHAO KHAM SATTA

Vat Khili, with its original form and décor intact, was constructed in the plain style comprising a single nave and porch but with a distinctive double roof over the hall, which is plain and lower than that of the rear hall, that features dragon head roof-ridge horns in masonry inlaid with flame shaped glasswork.

Vat Khili in
1930

 

INTERESTING STORIES

 

Vat Khili whose full name is Vat Souvanna Khili means “the Golden Mountain Temple’’.

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