Chisor Mountain Temple

Phnom Chisor is a popular ancient temple and contemporary monastery site located around 50 km south of Phnom Penh in Takeo Province, Cambodia. The ancient temple is quite large and wonderous, built on the hillside with a spectacular staircase that leads down to two entrance pavilions down on the plains below with the outer pavilion some 700 m away to the east which is further preceded by an ancient basin.

The temple proper, on the hillside, contains a set of six brick temples with the largest being the central temple with a front building open to the east that is surrounded by five secondary temples, also open to the east, plus there are two "library" that open to the west. All of that is housed within a galleried and chambered laterite enclosure wall.

As previously stated, the center temple is a big brick square brick temple with a very large hall attached to its front. The brick temple still has rendering, which is interesting, although I'm not sure when it was done. Inside, you can pray in front of a swarm of colorful flashing lights.