Sacred Places
39 places found
BuddhismWat Mangkon Kamalawat
· Thailand · monastery
The principal Chinese Mahayana Buddhist temple in Bangkok, set in the heart of Chinatown and famous for its year-round festivals and ornate dragon-roofed halls.
BuddhismWat Na Phra Men
· Thailand · monastery
The only Ayutthaya temple to survive the Burmese sack of 1767 intact, preserving a regal late-Ayutthaya ubosot and an ancient Dvaravati-era stone Buddha.
BuddhismWat Pah Nanachat
· Thailand · monastery
An international Theravada forest monastery near Ubon Ratchathani, founded by Ajahn Chah in 1975 as a training community for non-Thai monks in the Thai Forest Tradition.
BuddhismWat Pa Lelai Worawihan
· Thailand · monastery
A historic Thai Buddhist temple in Suphan Buri Province, set along the western bank of the Suphanburi River and treasured locally as a place of refuge and devotion.
BuddhismWat Paramaiyikawat
· Thailand · monastery
An ancient riverside Mon-influenced Buddhist temple on the island of Ko Kret in Nonthaburi, recognised by its leaning Mutao chedi and devotion to a beloved royal grandmother.
BuddhismWat Pathum Wanaram
· Thailand · monastery
A nineteenth-century royal Buddhist temple set among Bangkok's busiest shopping districts, founded in 1857 by King Mongkut beside his Sa Pathum Palace and home to a Thammayut Nikaya community.
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 Phnom
· Cambodia · monastery
The hilltop pagoda from which Phnom Penh takes its name, founded according to legend in 1372 by a woman named Penh to enshrine Buddha images and a Vishnu statue found in a floating koki tree.
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.