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Wat Pathum Khongkha

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Stupas at Wat Pathumkongka (6491913971)
Stupas at Wat Pathumkongka (6491913971)

Wat Pathum Khongkha Ratchaworawihan, or simple known as Wat Pathum Khongkha (Thai: วัดปทุมคงคาราชวรวิหาร, วัดปทุมคงคา) is a second class royal temple in the Talat Noi area of Bangkok's Chinatown near Tri Mit Road, which leads to Odeon Circle, the beginning of Yaowarat Road. It is an ancient temple since Ayutthaya period. Until the early Rattanakosin period corresponding to the King Rama I's reign. The King's younger brother Prince Maha Sura Singhanat renovated the entire monastery as a merit making dedicated to his father Mr. Thongdee and renamed the temple to Wat Pathum Khongkha (temple of lotuses in water). Its formerly named as Wat Sampheng according to its location Sampheng, the Chinese and commercial quarters since those days.

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Wat Pathum Khongkha
Song Wat Road, Bangkok Samphanthawong District

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Song Wat Road
10100 Bangkok, Samphanthawong District
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Lhong 1919
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Wat Samphanthawongsaram
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Wat Samphanthawongsaram Worawiharn (Thai: วัดสัมพันธวงศาราม วรวิหาร), also known in short Wat Samphanthawongsaram is a third grade royal Buddhist temple of Worawihan in Dhammayuttika Nikaya sect. It is situated in the area of Sampheng, also known as Bangkok's Chinatown. The monastery is an ancient temple, which was built in Ayutthaya period. It was formerly surrounded by natural khlong (canal) bridging to Chao Phraya River which brought its local name Wat Ko (the island temple). In the beginning of Rattanakosin in 1796, King Rama I renovated the entire temple and made it a royal temple with the name Wat Ko Kaew Langkaram. Later on, in the reign of King Rama IV, the name was changed to Wat Samphanthawongsaram Worawiharn in present, to honour Prince Samphanthawong (Chui), King Rama I's nephew who was the head of major temple restoration (its name also became the name of the district later). The principal Buddha image inside the ordination hall is a seated Buddha in Maravijaya attitude, made of hollow log with lime covering. The image's arms are made of wood with gold application. Inside the image and under its base contain numbers of silver and lead votive tablets. The area of the temple was once the first lodging in Dan Beach Bradley's country of Siam (Thailand in those days), an American physician and Protestant missionary who came to Siam to evangelize. He was also the founder of the first printing house in Siam. For this reason, there were many printing houses around the temple in those days.In the reign of King Rama V, he presided over the Thot Kathin ceremony at this temple along with nearby temple Wat Pathum Khongkha. Moreover, in the 1932 Siamese revolution. The naval faction of Khana Ratsadon (People's Party), they have mobilised about 500 armed sailors occupying the Royal Plaza in the dawn of June 24, 1932, claiming to suppress the Chinese uprising at this temple.