Banteay Kdei (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបន្ទាយក្តី, Prasat Banteay Kdei) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It is located southeast of Ta Prohm and east of Angkor Thom. Built in the late 12th to early 13th centuriesCE during the reign of Jayavarman VII, it is a Buddhist temple in the Bayon style, similar in plan to Ta Prohm and Preah Khan, but less complex and smaller. Its structures are contained within two successive enclosure walls, and consist of two concentric galleries from which emerge towers, preceded to the east by a cloister.
This monastic complex is currently dilapidated due to faulty construction and poor quality sandstone. Banteay Kdei has been occupied by monks at various intervals over the centuries, but the inscription stone has never been discovered so it is unknown to whom the temple is dedicated.
Banteay kdei was built by the king Jayavarman 7 dedicated to Buddha and this temple was built in the mid of 12th beginning 13th this temple was built on the levels of the ground for the use as the Buddha monastery and the Banteay kdei wasn’t restored and this temple was built by the soft sandstone and many galleries were collapsed and enclosing walls the first outer wall its dimension 700 m longs 500 m width was built of late rite. There are 4 entry towers and were decorated with Garuda on each side of the passage way second enclosing wall 320 m long 200 m width.
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