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Late medieval · Buddhist · Thailand
Wat Chaiwatthanaram
Ayutthaya, Ayutthaya · 14.3431°, 100.5417°
Theravada Buddhist templeAyutthaya KingdomKhmerUNESCO World Heritage
Sacred since
1630 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1630 (Prasat Thong)
Ayutthaya Kingdom
History & significance
A riverside temple west of Ayutthaya island completed in 1630 as the first foundation of King Prasat Thong's reign, in memory of his mother's residence there. Built to a Khmer plan with a 35-metre central prang ringed by four lesser prangs and eight chedi-shaped chapels carrying Jataka reliefs, it lay abandoned after the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767 until restoration began in 1987.