Sacred Places
39 places found
BuddhismWat Pa Lelai Worawihan
Suphan Buri · Thailand · monastery
An ancient riverside Temple in Suphan Buri, home to Luang Pho To, an immense stuccoed Buddha image seated in the rare Pang Pa Lelai posture and enshrined in a tower tall enough to be seen from across the town.
BuddhismWat Pa Mok Worawihan
Pa Mok · Thailand · monastery
Wat Pa Mok Worawihan is a riverside Temple in Ang Thong province, central Thailand, built around a gilded reclining Buddha image nearly twenty-three metres long that tradition says came to rest here of its own will.
BuddhismWat Paramaiyikawat
Pak Kret · Thailand · monastery
Wat Paramaiyikawat is a Mon-heritage riverine Temple on Ko Kret island in Nonthaburi, known across Thailand for the Phra Chedi Mutao, a white stupa that has leaned gently over the Chao Phraya since the river eroded its footing.
BuddhismWat Pathum Wanaram
Bangkok · Thailand · monastery
Wat Pathum Wanaram is a nineteenth-century royal Temple in the heart of Bangkok, its low white walls and orange-tiled sala standing directly against the glass towers of Siam Paragon and CentralWorld.
BuddhismWat Pha Luangta Maha Bua
Sai Yok · Thailand · monastery
Wat Pha Luangta Maha Bua is a Theravada forest monastery in Kanchanaburi province, western Thailand, founded in 1994 and known internationally, and controversially, as the Tiger Temple before its closure to the public in 2016.
BuddhismWat Phanan Choeng
· Thailand · monastery
An Ayutthaya Temple older than the kingdom itself, home to a 19-metre gilded Buddha revered as a guardian of mariners and a meeting point of Thai and Chinese devotion.
BuddhismWat Phichayayatikaram
· Thailand · monastery
A graceful Thonburi-side Buddhist Temple on the bank of Khlong Somdet Chao Phraya in Bangkok's Khlong San District, regarded as among the most beautifully composed of the city's wats.
BuddhismWat Phra Kaew
Bangkok · Thailand · temple
The Chapel Royal of the Kings of Thailand within the Grand Palace, home of the Emerald Buddha, the most revered Buddha image in the kingdom.
BuddhismWat Phra Lao Thep Nimit
· Thailand · monastery
A Buddhist Temple in Amnat Charoen Province known for its Lanna-style ordination hall and the eighteenth-century image regarded as the finest Buddha of Thailand's Northeast.
BuddhismWat Phra Mahathat
· Thailand · monastery
The principal Temple of Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand, whose great Sri Lankan-style stupa is believed to enshrine a tooth-relic of the Buddha.
BuddhismWat Phra Ram
· Thailand · monastery
A historic Buddhist Temple at the heart of old Ayutthaya, set within easy reach of the royal palace and aligned, like the city's principal wats, toward the rising sun.
BuddhismWat Phra Si Mahathat
· Thailand · monastery
A first-class royal Buddhist Temple in Bangkok's Bang Khen District, founded after the Siamese Revolution to enshrine relics of the Buddha and to mark a new democratic era.