After more than a millenium the brick sanctuaries in Koh Ker are in a much better condition than the laterite ones.

Clad in their white habits, members of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists to most of us) file into their austere brick sanctuary for vigils, the first of seven daily choral prayer services.

The kalan was the brick sanctuary, typically in the form of a tower, used to house the deity.

In 1870 a large wooden church was built, and twenty years later an even larger brick sanctuary, with a seating capacity of nearly 1,500, was built at this location.

The first structure on the site was a single-chamber brick sanctuary, probably constructed in the latter part of the 8th Century, scholars believe.

A large brick gothic sanctuary was built in 1923, and seats 1,700, with a balcony on both sides and in the back.

St. John's parish was organized in 1834 and by 1837 the parishioners had moved into a modest brick sanctuary on the corner of Perry and Jefferson Streets.

Their brick sanctuary, and the tall white steeple above it, was not threatened by the fire.

An U Thong-Ayuthaya imitation Buddha image sits in the brick sanctuary in front of the linked towers.

Two brick sanctuaries built around the 10th century, northeast of the tower.