Sentence examples for state temple from inspiring English sources
A highlight is a seven-tiered pyramid, 40 metres high, which is thought to have been the state temple of Jayavarman IV and is often compared to Mayan temples.
At the exact centre of the city stands the enigmatic Bayon – the state temple of Jayavarman.
Dedicated to Vishnu, it was built as the king's state temple and capital city.
King Jayavarman VII, the first Khmer King to convert to Buddhism, built Bayon as their state temple in 12th century.
Farmers made up the bulk of the population, but agricultural produce was owned directly by the state, temple, or noble family that owned the land.
The temple was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura (, present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum.
The old state temples were closed and the court transferred to a purpose-built capital city, Akhetaton (Amarna).
Angkor Wat, located at, is a unique combination of the temple mountain, the standard design for the empire's state temples and the later plan of concentric galleries.
Indeed, it is odd to think of how, once upon a time, the Parthenon was a richly adorned city-state temple, the commanding architectural representation of 5th-century Athens, and is now a bleached and almost wholly rebuilt ruin for tourists to pixelate with their mobile phone cameras.
Indiana-LIU Brooklyn-James Madison-N.C. State-Temple winner vs. Syracuse-Montana-UNLV-California winner.
