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 Wat Mahannapharam is National Historic Site since 1949. An art of Wat Mahannapharam had been influenced by many countries. Wat Mahannapharam builds the first school in Thailand for citizens.

History
According to the history, Wat Mahannapharam was constructed in the reign of King Rama III (1824-1851) to honour King Rama II. The construction was completed in the reign of King Rama IV (1851-1868). A name of the temple means “The Vast Royal Temple”. The King Rama III's son is a constructive manager of the temple since 1850. Moreover, he also donated his private property because he wanted to construct the temple for people.

The art
Wat Mahannapharam has the image of Buddha which Thai people always call ‘Pra Ruangvenerable monk’. There are very beautiful art, sculpture, and paint. Besides, the image of Buddha is very distinctive. In fact, the image of Buddha was influenced from Sukhothai period in which 60 percent of the Buddha statue was made of gold and it features Sukhothai art. The image of Buddha is connected to 9 of the image of Buddha. From the beginning, Buddhist believes that number 9 is the mark of progress. An outstanding beauty of the image of Buddha composes of slightly crinkled hair, an oval face, a beauty of eyebrows, a nose and a little smile of the mouth. All of this composition matched with the belief of Buddhist since they believed that all of it represents happiness and peace. The likeness of art came from belief and faith of Buddhism in Ceylon. Especially, the image of the angels which is the mural is similar to the art of Ceylon, India, and Cambodia. The image of Buddha would not represent a difference of skin colours conversely, it would represent the height of shape, the curvature concave including both part of the head and the neck. Also, it would not represent a similar body of people and emotion such as muscles, ligaments, and bones.

Location
261/4 Tarnow road, Sao Chingcha, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, 10200

Bus No. 2, 9, 15, 42, 47, 60, 70, 169, 203, 11

Contact
Tel. 02 622 3372

Open 9.00 AM

Close 5.00 PM

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Reference
Dhammajak. (1 december 2008). landhamma. From dhammajak: www.dhammajak.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=19302

Dhammaleela. (3 February 2015). Dhamma. From manager: www.manager.co.th/Dhamma/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9580000012853