Silver Pagoda

The Silver Pagoda is located on the south side of the Royal Palace in Chey Chumneas, Phnom Penh. The official name is Wat Ubaosoth Ratanaram (Khmer), also known as Wat Preah Keo Morakot (Khmer, "Temple of the Emerald-Crystal Buddha") which is commonly shortened to Wat Preah Keo (Khmer) in Khmer. The vihara houses many national treasures including many golds and jeweled Buddha statues. The most significant is a small green crystal Buddha (the "Emerald Buddha" of Cambodia). Some sources maintain it was made of Baccarat Crystal in the 17th century although since Baccarat Crystal didn't exist until the 18th century it could not be by Baccarat. Other sources indicate it was made in the 19th century by Lalique, a glass designer who lived in the 19th-20th century. There is also a life-sized gold Maitreya Buddha commissioned by King Sisowath, weighing 90 kg and dressed in royal regalia and set with 9,584 diamonds, the largest of which weighing 25 carats, created in the palace workshops during 1906 and 1907. After the Cambodian Civil War the gold Maitreya Buddha lost most of its two-thousand diamonds. During King Norodom Sihanouk's pre-Khmer Rouge reign, the Silver Pagoda was inlaid with more than 5,329 silver tiles and some of its outer facades was remodeled with Italian marble. However, only a small area of these tiles are visible by

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