(best seen in original size)

View from the entrance of a Security guard
climbing up the stairs of main temple of Pre Rup.
The Pre Rup was the state temple of King Rajendravarman II.
It is a mountain temple build in the year 961, located just
South of the large East baray and the East Mebon, another
mountain temple build by Rajendravarman II just 9 years earlier.
In the early 20th century the Pre Rup had been completely
overgrown and covered with soil. The temple was excavated
during the 1930’s by French conservators George Trouvé and Henri Marchal.