Wat Phra Borommathat

Terrain

General Condition

Wat Phra Borommathat is located within the ancient Nakhon Chum moat in the present Nakhon Chum municipality. The surrounding area is a community and residential houses. The north side of the temple is 495 meters from the Ping River.

Height above mean sea level

Waterway

Ping River, Suan Mak Canal

Geological conditions

The Ping River Basin is deposited with sediments, gravel, sand, silt and clay. There is a canal that flows from the western mountains into the Ping River.

Archaeological Era

era/culture

Archaeological age

Types of archaeological sites

archaeological essence

Wat Phra Borommathat is located in the center of Nakhon Chum. Assumed to be old since the Sukhothai period, as evidenced in the main Sukhothai inscription 3 (Nakhon Chum inscription) mentions Phra Maha Thammaracha (Lithai), the Sukhothai king. He came to make Phra Sri Mahathat and planted a Phra Sri Maha Bodhi tree that came from Lanka in the middle of Nakhon Chum in the year 1900, which is assumed to be this royal relic. Currently, Wat Phra Borommathat is a temple where monks still live in the Buddhist Lent.

How many important building blocks consist of

President Chedi At present, it is a Mon-Burmese style pagoda, originally assumed that the main chedi was in the shape of a canopy of rice, three on the same base. Later, in the reign of King Rama V, allowed a Burmese timber merchant named Sae Por or Phraya Ta Ka to repair the chedi by creating a new one in the Mon-Burmese style as it appears today.