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Archaeological site · Pratu Chai, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province

Wat Lokayasutharam

วัดโลกยสุธาราม · วัดโลกยสุธา

Wat Lokayasutharam is a temple ruin in Pratu Chai on the city island of Ayutthaya, known for a large reclining Buddha image in the open.

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Wat Lokayasutharam is a temple ruin on the city island of Ayutthaya, in Pratu Chai subdistrict behind the old royal palace. The province's tourism pages describe a reclining Buddha image 42 metres long resting in the open, its head supported by a lotus, surrounded by 24 octagonal brick pillars that were probably built to carry a cover over it, and a chedi about 30 metres high; they say the temple is believed to date from the middle Ayutthaya period and that the image was restored in 1954 and 1989. The Fine Arts Department's Ayutthaya Historical Park unit has published a procurement plan for a project to restore this reclining Buddha. The record is the temple site, not the image alone.

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Ayutthaya

Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, usually called Ayutthaya, is a city municipality in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province; the Fine Arts Department describes the old capital founded here in 1350 as centred on a city island ringed by three rivers. XTOUR places the Ayutthaya Historical Park in the city and keeps sites elsewhere in the province, such as Bang Pa-In Royal Palace, as separate places.

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