Bangkok

Wat Suthat Temple

Bamrung Mueang Road, Bangkok, Thailand

Description:

Wat Suthat is an old Buddhist temple whose interior is decorated with murals representing Buddhist cosmology. Its construction began in 1807 and lasted twenty-seven years. It is located in the historical part of the city on the island of Rattanakosin.

Along the perimeter of the highest in the capital Vihana, the teak doors of which are decorated with very beautiful carvings, along its outer walls there are 156 golden Buddha statues and reduced copies of eight-level Chinese pagodas. And inside the temple is an 8-meter bronze statue of Buddha, which is the largest surviving image of the Buddha of the Sukhothai era.

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