Place of worship
Wat Intharawihan
144 ถ. วิสุทธิกษัตริย์ Khwaeng Bang Khun Phrom, Khet Phra Nakhon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10200
Thirty-two-metre standing Buddha — the golden "Luang Pho To" — built over sixty years and completed in nineteen twenty-seven.
This guide to Wat Intharawihan in Bangkok follows the monk Somdej Toh, who began building a colossal standing Buddha in 1867 with the blessing of King Mongkut, only to die at its foot four years in with the statue still unfinished. It traces the decades of construction that carried on after him, worker by worker, king by king, in the Banglamphu neighbourhood he wanted the figure to watch over. Listen for the relic from Sri Lanka sealed inside the statue's topknot.
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