Wat Botum (Khmer: វត្តបទុម, UNGEGN: Vôtt Bâtŭm, ALA-LC: Vatt Padum [ʋɔət ɓɑːtum]; lit.

[1] Wat Botum is a Khmer Buddhist pagoda in Phnom Penh, built by King Ponhea Yat (1405-1467) in the 15th century, located south of the Royal Palace of Cambodia.

[2] Established by King Ponhea Yat in 1442, Wat Botum is one of the most important and original pagodas in Phnom Penh.

and at the time of the construction of the Royal Palace in the 1860s, when it was assigned to the Cambodian branch of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, it was renamed Botum Wathei by monk Kantie Topodae after a former lotus pond on the site.

Later, during the reign of Samdech Preah Sokun bat and later kings, Phnom Penh abandoned Phnom Penh to build a new city in Tuol Basan in 1508, and other places, Khpob Ta Yang pagoda, the construction was quiet until it became a pagoda.

In the forest, not even a single monk lives and has been abandoned by the locals for hundreds of years, his name is known only in the royal genealogy, while the real location is a tabernacle with a leaf and a stone pillar.