Wat Ounalom

Maybe the most unmistakable and most established of five pagodas in the nation, Wat Ounalom is the focal point of Cambodian Buddhism and fills in as the habitation of the Patriarch of the Mahanikai School of Buddhism.

As the name demonstrates, King Ponhea Yat - signifying 'Eyebrow Temple' - was worked in 1443 to revere an eyebrow hair ounalom of Lord Buddha, and the shrine was once home to more than 500 priests and additionally the Buddhist Institute's library that held in its accumulation more than 30,000 titles. Be that as it may, the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 made genuine damage to the Wat's valuable cultural artifacts and book gathering and additionally taking without end the lives of the majority of monks who lived there amid this period.