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Wat Chetawan

Petaling Jaya, Selangor · 3.1028°, 101.6516°

Gautama BuddhaModernThai
Sacred since
1957 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1957–1962
Modern

History & significance

A Thai Theravada temple in Petaling Jaya founded in 1957 by Phra Kru Palat Vieng and designed by Thailand's Fine Arts Department, its gilded main shrine completed in June 1962 with funds to which King Bhumibol Adulyadej personally contributed. It holds a share of the Buddha relics excavated at Piprahwa in 1898, given by Lord Curzon to King Chulalongkorn of Siam and passed to Malaysia in 2012.

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Sources

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-28 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Modern