Place of worship
Wat Kalayanamit Woramahawihan
371 ซอย อรุณอมรินทร์ 6 เเขวง วัดกัลยาณ์ วัดกัลยานิมิตร 371/2 Soi Wat Kanlaya, Khwaeng Wat Kanlaya, Khet Thon Buri, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10600
Riverside Thai-Chinese temple built in 1825, housing Bangkok's largest seated Buddha and Thailand's heaviest bell.
This guide to Wat Kalayanamit in Bangkok follows To, a wealthy Thai-Chinese merchant who built a whole temple on his own land in 1825 and handed it to King Rama III without asking anything in return. It traces the great seated Buddha inside the temple's viharn, once considered the largest in Bangkok, and the bronze bell in the courtyard cast from the same river trade that made To his fortune. Listen for the stone guardian figures near the entrance, brought over as ballast in Chinese trading ships.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.