Nai Lert Park Heritage Home
Restored nineteen-fifteen teak mansion and park, home to Bangkok's most unusual fertility shrine.
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This guide to Nai Lert Park Heritage Home in Bangkok follows Lert Sreshthaputra, the Thai-Chinese businessman who built this teak mansion in 1915 from timber salvaged off retired ocean liners and opened its grounds as the city's first public park. It traces one morning when he pulled a spirit house from the canal beside the property and set a carved tree-spirit figure on the bank with offerings before it. You'll hear how word of a prayer answered there spread across Bangkok in the years that followed. Walk the fourteen acres of garden before you reach the shrine itself.
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