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Wat Dibayavari Vihara

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วัดทิพยวารีวิหาร เขตพระนคร กรุงเทพมหานคร (12)
วัดทิพยวารีวิหาร เขตพระนคร กรุงเทพมหานคร (12)

Wat Dibayavari Vihara (Thai: วัดทิพยวารีวิหาร; RTGS: Wat Thipphaya Wari Wihan; Chinese: 敕賜甘露禪寺; pinyin: Chì cì gānlù chán sì; lit: "Temple of Holy Water"), commonly known as Kham Low Yi (กัมโล่วยี่; 甘露寺; Gānlù sì) is a historic Chinese-Vietnamese temple in Bangkok, located at 119 Soi Thip Wari, Tri Phet Road, Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok in the area of Ban Mo, opposite to The Old Siam Plaza.This temple was built in the Thonburi period in B.E. 2319 (between April 1776–March 1777) during the reign of King Taksin. He gave the east bank of the Chao Phraya River as a residence for Chinese and Vietnamese. Later on, in the Rattanakosin period. Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, Prince of Huế, who came to rely on the Thai King, smuggled back to his country. Thus making the King's younger brother, Prince Maha Sura Singhanat had doubts about the Vietnamese who living in Siam (Thailand at that time). He ordered the Vietnamese who living there to move out. As a result, this area lonely immediately, and the temple has no monks lived for many years. Until the B.E. 2439 (1896), one Chinese monk named "Hai Son" (ไห่ซัน) from Hunan came to live here and restored by local Chinese millionaires are sponsors. The result of the restoration makes the temple more beautiful. King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) appointed him as abbot in B.E. 2452 (1909), and gave a Thai official name "Wat Dibayavari Vihara", which meaning "Holy Water Temple". Because of there is a small pond, the water in the pond is believed to be holy water. This pond is believed to have Green Dragon (one of Four Symbols according to the ancient Chinese beliefs) as patron. This makes the temple is well known as "Temple of Green Dragon". Inside were enshrined many idols such as Hua Tuo, Green Dragon, Yue Lao, Erlang Shen, Trikāya, Avalokiteśvara etc. At present, it is popular among Chinese, including Thais for ward off bad luck according to Chinese astrology especially in New Year or Chinese New Year and Chinese vegetarian festival.

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Wat Dibayavari Vihara
Soi Thip Wari, Bangkok Phra Nakhon District

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Tri Phet Road
Tri Phet Road

Tri Phet Road (Thai: ถนนตรีเพชร, RTGS: Thanon Tri Phet, pronounced [tʰā.nǒn trīː pʰét]) is a road in inner Bangkok, it is located in Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District, regarded as one of the memorials to the children of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) who died as a child as same as Sirirat Hospital, or Uruphong Intersection etc. Tri Phet Road starts at the Chaloem Krung Intersection in front of Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre, cuts across Ti Thong Road, run straight to the Phahurat Intersection and ends at the foot of Memorial Bridge. It was built by royal command of King Chulalongkorn in memory of Prince Tribejrutama Dhamrong, his son born to Queen Saovabha Phongsri. The young prince died, at the age of seven in the year 1887. The construction was financed by the deceased prince's private fund. Originally, it was just a length of Charoen Krung to Phahurat Roads. Later in the year 1898, King Chulalongkorn has given the extension to reach the foot of the Memorial Bridge, where Chak Phet Road runs through like today. The road has a total length of 650 m (2,132 ft). In the 150th anniversary of Rattanakosin in the year 1932, King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) ordered the celebration of city and the construction of a Memorial Bridge including King Phutthayotfa Chulalok (Rama I) Statue that are directly on the end of the Tri Phet Road. Although it is a short road, it runs through many important places, for example Nightingale–Olympic Department Store, The Old Siam Plaza, Wat Ratchaburana, and the Long Corridor of Suankularb Wittayalai School with Poh-Chang Academy of Arts etc.

Ban Mo, Bangkok
Ban Mo, Bangkok

Ban Mo (Thai: บ้านหม้อ, pronounced [bâːn.mɔ̂ː]) is the name of a street and its corresponding neighbourhood in Bangkok's Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District. It is located just outside the old inner moat in the historic Rattanakosin Island area. The road runs a short distance of 0.6 kilometres (0.37 mi) from Si Kak Phraya Si Intersection, where it meets Charoen Krung and Fueang Nakhon roads, to meet Chak Phet Road in the Pak Khlong Talat area. It passes the beginning of Phahurat Road at Ban Mo Intersection. It can be considered a road with one-way traffic management. The area was settled during the Thonburi period by Mon and Vietnamese settlers, whose primary trade was pottery. The area thus became known as Ban Mo, meaning "pottery village". The trade later shifted to goldworking, as well as diamond jewellery. Today, the neighbourhood has become a well known centre of shops specialising in electronics and audio equipment.At present, remaining evidence of pottery is a pot sculpture on the gable of the entrance gate Ban Mo Market.Moreover, Ban Mo was also site the first headquarters of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) in 1904 as Book Club (now, the building is adjacent to Saowabha Vocational College) before moving to Talat Noi in Yaowarat neighbourhood soon after. Today's Siam Commercial Bank, Talat Noi Branch. And also home to the San Chao Por Ban Mo Lao Pun Tao Kong (Chinese: 萬茂老本頭公古廟; pinyin: wàn mào lǎo běn tóu gōng gǔ miào), Teochew's joss house is believed to be the oldest in Bangkok established since 1816.

Si Kak Phraya Si
Si Kak Phraya Si

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On Lok Yun
On Lok Yun

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Phahurat
Phahurat

Phahurat or Pahurat (Thai: พาหุรัด), often known as Thailand's Little India, is an ethnic neighborhood surrounding Phahurat Road in Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok. The area that would become Phahurat was an enclave of Annamese (Vietnamese) immigrants who came to Siam during the reign of King Taksin (1768–1782). In 1898, a first broke out and paved way for a road which was named "Bahurada", commonly spelled today as Phahurat or Pahurat (as it is pronounced), by King Chulalongkorn in remembrance of his daughter Princess Bahurada Manimaya (RTGS: Phahurat Manimai) (Thai: สมเด็จพระเจ้าลูกเธอ เจ้าฟ้าพาหุรัดมณีมัย) who had died at young age.Many of today's Phahurat residents are of South Asian descent. A Sikh community settled there more than a century ago and established a textile trading center that is still thriving. The golden-domed Siri Guru Singh Sabha temple is a landmark of Phahurat. The neighborhood is also home to South Asian Hindus and Muslims. For the road, Phahurat is a short route that is divided into two parts. The first is the road continues from Ban Mo Road at Ban Mo Intersection ended up at the point where it meet Tri Phet Road, known as Phahurat Intersection, while the second separates itself from the left side of Chak Phet Road to the termination at Phahurat Intersection, both parts are one-way roads. The sprawling of Chinese shops from the nearby Chinatown are slowly encroaching on Phahurat, but South Asian restaurants and businesses still dominate the area. It is home to some of Bangkok's more unusual shopping sites, including the sprawling Sampheng Market (Saphan Han), The Old Siam Plaza, and Nightingale–Olympic, with the four-storey India Emporium.