Place of worship
Wat Benchamabophit Dusitwanaram
69 Thanon Rama V, Khwaeng Dusit, Khet Dusit, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10300
Italian Carrara marble Buddhist temple housing fifty-two Asian Buddha images and the ashes of King Rama V.
This guide to Wat Benchamabophit in Bangkok traces a memory a young prince carried for decades, back to a golden Buddha he saw on a childhood trip to Phitsanulok in 1866. It follows that boy into his reign as King Rama V, and the marble temple he commissioned to answer it, built between 1899 and 1911. Along the way you'll meet the fifty-two bronze Buddhas he gathered from across Asia to line the cloister. Take a slow lap of that gallery before heading inside.
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