VAT
PHAN LUANG

 

TEMPLE STYLE: LUANG PRABANG STYLE III
YEAR FOUNDED: UNKNOWN
BUILT BY: UNKNOWN

Vat Phan Luang features a strange Prasat-shaped chapel that houses Buddha statues, two of which are in the posture “Calling on the Earth as witness “. This small chapel is placed on the altar of the monastery.

Vat Phan Luang in
1930

 

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The date of construction of the temple is unknown, but its style is similar to the temples of the 18th and 19th centuries. It was demolished in 1948. Two lateral galleries were added during the reconstruction that began in 1951.

Luang Prabang World Heritage Office