Section of Bayon temple restoration complete

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The restoring and strengthening the southwest corner structure of the third terrace of the Bayon temple took six months to finish and architects described that the work was done by hand without the help of machinery. Some of the blocks have been replaced by new ones cut from the mountains, which are the same type of sandstone. They are newer than the previous ones, but architects have replaced less than 20% of all the original stones.

 

Meng Sovanlylin, an architect at the Angkor Park and Archeological Prevention’s Department of Conservation of Monuments, said that during the restoration process, the team focused on strengthening the wall of the terrace and the soil quality of the foundation. Sovanlylin told Khmer Times yesterday that her work faced many challenges on the third terrace of Bayon temple because they could not set up machines like cranes to lift the stone and that’s why architects had to use their own energy to complete the work.

 

“Tree roots are one of the main factors which damage the temple because tree roots grow into the small gaps of the stone joints causing the structural skeleton to shift out of position. From the beginning of 2021 until now, my team has repaired two different temples – here and the Takav Gate of Angkor Thom,” Sovanlylin said.

 

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