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Wat Ratchabophit

Wat Ratchabophit

The Wat Ratchabophit is a temple built in the reign of King Rama V in 1869. There is a large chedi housing a Lop Buri-style Buddha image. The temple exterior is Thai while the interiors are European. Many of the building...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Phra Nakhon,
Bangkok

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Wat Ratchanadda (The Loha Prasat)

Wat Ratchanadda (The Loha Prasat)

The Wat Ratchanadda is located across the street from the Golden Mountain in Bangkok. Construction was started in the reign of Rama III in the 19th century but was only recently completed due to the complexity of its des...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Phra Nakhon,
Bangkok

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Wat Saket - Temple of the Golden Mount

Wat Saket - Temple of the Golden Mount

The Wat Saket is a temple on a man-made hill (there are 318 steps to the top) on the Rattanakosin Island in Bangkok. The Golden Mount is a spire that is 260 feet high. The temple construction began in the 1800s in the re...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Pomprap Sattruphai ,
Bangkok

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Wat Suthat

Wat Suthat

The Wat Suthat was built in the early 19th century. The Giant Swing nearby is not used any more, but the frame stands as a reminder of defunct Brahmin ceremonies involving young men swinging to snatch a sack of gold on a...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Phra Nakhon,
Bangkok

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Wat Traimit

Wat Traimit

The Wat Traimit is a temple in Chinatown in Bangkok. The solid gold Buddha image is 15 feet tall, weighs over five tonnes, and is valued at over US$20 million. The image was designed in the Sukhothai style in the 13th ce...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Samphanthawong,
Bangkok

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Wat Pho: The Temple of the Reclining Buddha

Wat Pho: The Temple of the Reclining Buddha

Wat Pho is known as Wat Phra Chetuphon, and as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, an image that depicts the Buddha's passing into Nirvana. The gold-plated Reclining Buddha is 46 metres long and 15 metres high. The e...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Phra Nakhon,
Bangkok

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Wat Intharawihan

Wat Intharawihan

The Wat Intharawihan has a Buddha image 32 metres tall and 11 metres wide. Construction of this image started in 1867 and was completed in 1927, spanning the reigns of King Rama IV and King Rama VII. The topknot of the i...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Phra Nakhon,
Bangkok

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Erawan Shrine

Erawan Shrine

Erawan Shrine is Brahman, not strictly Buddhist. And yet this famous shrine attracts more visitors than many of the city's temples. It was erected during the mid 1950s, after the Thai government decided to build the ...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Pathumwan,
Bangkok

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Assumption Cathedral

Assumption Cathedral

Assumption Cathedral is Bangkok's principal Roman Catholic cathedral and the main church of the Archdiocese of Bangkok, which dates back to 1662. It was built between 1910 and 1918 to replace an earlier church on the...

Temples & Other Religious Sites Bang Rak,
Bangkok

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Temple Kalayanamitr

Temple Kalayanamitr

The Kalayanamitr Temple was built by Nikon Phraya Bodin in a village that sprang around a Chinese Buddhist monk living in the area.

Temples & Other Religious Sites Thon Buri,
Bangkok

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