Place of worship
Yannawa Temple
40 ถ. เจริญกรุง Khwaeng Yan Nawa, Khet Sathon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10120
Buddhist temple whose centrepiece is a concrete Chinese junk over forty metres long, built by Rama III to preserve the vessel's image.
This guide to Yannawa Temple in Bangkok opens with King Rama III watching steam ships replace the Chinese junks that had carried Thai trade for generations, and his fear that his people would forget their shape. It follows the unusual solution he ordered built into these temple grounds along the Chao Phraya, and the trade the wheelhouse and masts underwent to become part of a working shrine. Stand along the hull to take in how exact the proportions really are.
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