Claim: Wat Botum (Khmer: វត្តបទុម a Cambodial language) established 1442 was originally named Wat Khpop and eminent people were buried here.
Evidence: The wat was originally named Wat Khpop Ta Yang or Wat Tayawng 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.