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Beng Mealea is an early 12th-century sandstone temple in northwestern Cambodia, 40 kilometres east of Angkor. The temple was built during the reign of King Suryavarman II (r. 1113-1150 CE), who also commissioned Angkor Wat, and shares the same general plan as Angkor Wat at roughly the same scale — a series of rectangular concentric galleries surrounding a central tower complex on a single low platform. The temple was originally Hindu, dedicated to Vishnu, with subsequent Buddhist additions. Beng Mealea was largely abandoned to the forest after the decline of Angkor and remained mostly unexcavated and unconsolidated through the 20th century. Massive collapse blocks lie tumbled across the galleries, and the surrounding strangler-fig and silk-cotton trees have grown into the wall fabric. Henri Mouhot mentioned the temple in his 1860 Cambodia journals. The temple was de-mined in the early 2000s and opened to limited tourism.
Wooden walkways now traverse the collapsed central towers.