Sacred Places
39 places found
BuddhismWat Aranyik
Phitsanulok · Thailand · monastery
A ruined Sukhothai-period Buddhist Temple on the edge of Phitsanulok, Wat Aranyik takes its name from the Pali word for forest, recalling the monks who once practised meditation apart from the town.
BuddhismWat Benchamabophit
Bangkok · Thailand · monastery
Known across Thailand as the Marble Temple, Wat Benchamabophit stands in Bangkok's royal Dusit quarter, its Carrara marble walls and tiered gilded roofs reflected in the canal that rings its grounds.
BuddhismWat Chaiwatthanaram
Ayutthaya · Thailand · monastery
A seventeenth-century Khmer-style Temple complex on the Chao Phraya River, its central prang and cross-shaped cloister forming one of the most striking ruins within the Ayutthaya Historical Park.
BuddhismWat Chakkrawat Rachawat Woramahawihan
Bangkok · Thailand · monastery
A royal Buddhist monastery at the edge of Bangkok's Chinatown, its history reaching back to the founding of Rattanakosin and its grounds home to a pond once kept by a monk for a legendary crocodile.
BuddhismWat Chaloem Phra Kiat Worawihan
Nonthaburi · Thailand · monastery
A royal Buddhist Temple on the Chao Phraya in Nonthaburi, raised by King Nangklao in filial devotion to his mother and enclosed by fortified walls that recall the ramparts of the Grand Palace.
BuddhismWat Chedi Yot Thong
· Thailand · monastery
A small historic Buddhist Temple in Phitsanulok, central Thailand, treasured for its delicate Sukhothai-period lotus-bud chedi, the last of its style remaining in the province.
BuddhismWat Chet Yot
Chiang Mai · Thailand · monastery
A fifteenth-century Lanna sanctuary in Chiang Mai whose seven brick spires echo the Mahabodhi Temple of Bodh Gaya, and a place of pilgrimage for devotees born in the year of the Snake.
BuddhismWat Chulamani
Phitsanulok · Thailand · monastery
The oldest standing Temple in Phitsanulok Province, its weathered Khmer-style prang rising in a quiet grass compound beside the Nan River as one of the northernmost Khmer monuments in Thailand.
BuddhismWat Mangkon Kamalawat
Bangkok · Thailand · monastery
The Dragon Lotus Temple, principal seat of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism in Thailand, rises among the incense smoke of Bangkok's Chinatown with sweeping tiled roofs and gilded shrine halls in the Teochew style. Founded in 1871, it remains the country's largest and most revered Chinese Buddhist Temple.
BuddhismWat Na Phra Men
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya · Thailand · monastery
The only Temple within the old city of Ayutthaya to survive the Burmese conquest of 1767 unburned, Wat Na Phra Men keeps its Ayutthaya-era ordination hall and a green-stone Buddha image reckoned among the oldest in Thailand.
BuddhismWat Nong Pa Phong
Warin Chamrap · Thailand · monastery
The forest monastery Ajahn Chah founded in 1954 near Ubon Ratchathani, wellspring of the Thai Forest Tradition and mother monastery to some 240 branch communities across the world.
BuddhismWat Pah Nanachat
Warin Chamrap · Thailand · monastery
Wat Pah Nanachat is an English-speaking Theravada forest monastery in the Isaan countryside outside Ubon Ratchathani, founded in 1975 to train monks from beyond Thailand in the lineage of Ajahn Chah.