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Wat Hong Rattanaram Ratchaworawihan, or just called Wat Hong Rattanaram (Thai: วัดหงส์รัตนารามราชวรวิหาร, วัดหงส์รัตนาราม) is an ancient Thai Buddhist temple located in Bangkok rim the Khlong Bangkok Yai canal.
Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat Ratchaworawihan (Thai: วัดพระศรีรัตนมหาธาตุราชวรวิหาร) is a first-class royal temple in Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai, Thailand.
Wat Niwet Thammaprawat is a royal temple, first-class, of the ratchaworawihan type, and is one of the sixteen temples which receive annual royal kathina offerings. It falls under the Dhammayut Order of Thai Theravada Buddhism. [2] It is a registered historic monument, and received the ASA Architectural Conservation Award in 1989.
The temple was established in 1824 by Mahasakti Pol Sep, viceroy during the reign of King Rama III (r. 1824–51). [ 2 ] The temple is a center of the Thammayut Nikaya order of Thai Theravada Buddhism , it is the shrine-hall of Phra Phuttha Chinnasi (พระพุทธชินสีห์), a statue of the Buddha which dates to around 1357.
Wat Ratchaorasaram Ratchaworawihan (Thai: วัดราชโอรสารามราชวรวิหาร), often called shortened to Wat Ratchaorot (วัดราชโอรส) is an ancient Thai Buddhist temple in Bangkok.
Wat Ratchabophit (pronounced [wát râːt.tɕʰā.bɔ̄ː.pʰít]), or formally Wat Ratchabophit Sathitmahasimaram Ratchaworawihan (Thai: วัดราชบพิธสถิตมหาสีมารามราชวรวิหาร), is a Buddhist temple on Fueang Nakhon Road, Bangkok, along Khlong Khu Mueang Doem, not far from Wat Pho and the Grand Palace.
The temple would be classified as a third-class royal monastery. Formerly and still colloquially known as Wat Ngoen (วัดเงิน, "silver temple") after the founder, Sino magnate Ngoen (เจ้าสัวเงิน) who was husband to the Princess Si Sudarak, an elder sister of King Rama I.
Its name Wat Nang literally "leather temple". The reason it got this name, believed that this is because in the past the temple grounds were used as a place to dry cowhides to be stretched out to make drumheads. Another explanation states that the area around the temple was a place for nang talung (shadow puppet) making. [3]