VAT
SENE

 

TEMPLE STYLE: LUANG PRABANG STYLE II
YEAR FOUNDED: 1714
BUILT BY: TA TIAO HANG

Vat Sene’s viharn, surrounded by eleven small stupas, features a single porch and triple nave of four bays with lean-to structures added onto the sided. Most of the restoration work were carried out between 1932 and 1936 involved the re-covering of the hall flooring, the decoration of Buddha’s altar, the framework, the door leaves and decorations of the front and porch.

Vat Sene in
1930

 

INTERESTING STORIES

 

The viharn was renovated again in 1957, during Buddha’s 2500th anniversary.

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