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The Prasat is a unique building of the Khmer civilization in Civilization VI. It is built in the Holy Site district and replaces the Temple.
Standard[]
- Effects:
- +6
Faith (boosted by Simultaneum Policy Card) - +1 Citizen slot
- +1 Great Prophet point per turn
- +1 Relic slots
- +4 Culture with Choral Music follower belief.
- +1 Housing with Religious Community follower belief.
- +2 Faith for each Religious City-State with 6 Envoys.
- With Ethiopia Pack: +2 Faith for each Religious City-State with 3 Envoys.
- With Ethiopia Pack: +2
- Allows purchasing of Apostles, Gurus, Inquisitors (after an Apostle uses its Launch Inquisition ability), and Warrior Monks (with the proper belief) in this city
- +0.5 Culture for every Population in this city
- Provides 10 Tourism if the city has between 10 and 19 Population, and 20 Tourism instead if the city has 20 or more Population after Flight is researched.
- +6
Heroes & Legends[]
- Effects:
- +6 Faith (boosted by Simultaneum Policy Card)
- +1 Citizen slot
- +1 Great Prophet point per turn
- +1 Relic slots
- +4 Culture with Choral Music follower belief.
- +1 Housing with Religious Community follower belief.
- +2 Faith for each Religious City-State with 6 Envoys.
- With Ethiopia Pack: +2 Faith for each Religious City-State with 3 Envoys.
- With Ethiopia Pack: +2
- Allows purchasing of Apostles, Gurus, Inquisitors (after an Apostle uses its Launch Inquisition ability), and Warrior Monks (with the proper belief) in this city
- +0.5 Culture for every Population in this city
- Provides 10 Tourism if the city has 10 or more Population, and 20 Tourism if the city has 20 or more Population after Flight is researched.
- Recalling Heroes in this city costs 15% less Faith.
- +6
Strategy[]
The Prasat is an incredible replacement for the Temple, as it provides an extra layer of rewards whenever a Khmer city reaches a 
Population checkpoint while supplying an excellent output of 
Faith and 
Culture in the meantime.
First, the Prasat's base Faith yield is 6, compared to the standard 4 of the Temple. As a civilization with victory skews towards a religious or a cultural victory, this is useful right off the bat. This advantage over the regular Temple is amplified further when the Simultaneum policy card is run, and the Khmer is the one civilization who has no problem satisfying both the adjacency bonus condition and the Population condition set by the card.
Second, and more importantly, it grants 0.5 Culture for every Population in the city. Normally, each point of Population grants 0.3 Culture, the Prasat lifts this number up to 0.8, more than double what it used to be. A city with 10 Population generates 8 Culture per turn, just from this building alone, that is twice the amount of Culture granted by a Temple with Choral Music belief. The interesting aspect of this bonus is that the Prasat itself does not provide any means to boost growth, but only more incentives for you to grow populous cities. Although the Khmer can enjoy a healthy level of 
Housing from their Holy Sites combined with the River Goddess pantheon and Aqueducts, the amount of bonus 
Food from Farms next to Aqueducts may not be sufficient to reliably raise the Population of every city to 20. Here are some other Food sources that may be useful:
- Hanging Gardens wonder
- Wisselbanken policy card
- Democracy government
- Collectivization policy card (requires Communism)
- Migration Treaty World Congress resolution
- Gurdwara as the worship belief
With Flight, the Prasat also supplies 10 
Tourism to any city with at least 10 Population or 20 Tourism to cities with at least 20. This huge burst of Tourism will help usher the Khmer toward a cultural victory a lot faster. Therefore, once a city reaches the milestone of 20 Population, consider focus your growth power somewhere else, like swapping Food tiles, moving Magnus with the Surplus Logistics title and 
Trade Routes to other cities. It is also worth noting that the Stadium also grants a bit of Tourism based on cities' Population, making it a useful complementary piece to the Prasat, even without taking into consideration that Stadiums and Entertainment Complexes help alleviate 
Amenity issues the Khmer is guaranteed to run into.
Civilopedia entry[]
When not dominating the Mekong and the mainland of Southeast Asia, the kings of the Khmer empire would turn their attention to their faith. And what better way to venerate the gods than through erecting massive temples?
These holy sites at the center of Khmer worship would serve as both symbols of their warrior-kings’ piety and their engineers' brilliance. The earliest Khmer temple on record is Prasat Ak Yom (c. 800), its design reflecting the South Indian tradition of 'ratha'-style temples, towering edifices terminating in a crown at the top. Of course, the Khmer would add their own flourish, adding prangs, or towers to the structures.
The construction of these temples would become an enduring feature of subsequent Khmer rulers, first facing east in honor of the Hindu god Shiva, while later construction would turn west after Jayavarman VII introduced Mahayana Buddhism to the Empire in the Twelfth Century.
Trivia[]
- Prasat (ប្រាសាទ) simply means "temple" in Khmer.
Gallery[]
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