Silver Pagoda

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Located on the South side of the architectural Royal Palace complex, the Silver Pagoda as well as Wat Preah Keo Morakat is the most beautiful and popular pagoda in Cambodia, not only in architecture but also in its artistic. This temple is officially owned by the royal that keeping many national treasures such as gold and jeweled Buddha statues, especially a baccarat crystal Buddha being extremely precious and notable, the statue of a meditating Buddha about 60 centimeters in height, that's why Silver Pagoda has another name called the Emerald Buddha of Cambodia. Over the world, there is only one in Thailand, one in Sri Lanka, one in Burma and recently added one in Australia. Silver Pagoda is a place where the kings, queens and royal family attend to prayers. They come here mainly to pray for peace, happiness and prosperity, the preservation of cultural traditions to country's future generations. The king and court officials organized by themselves the Buddha rituals so that the pagoda did not have any monks inside. In addition, this is also the place where the king listens to the monks coming and preaching as well as holding solemn ceremonies. Therefore, when visiting the pagoda, visitors must pay attention to dress properly, not wearing t-shirts, shorts or taking pictures, fliming.