Phra Ubosot Wat Racha Orasaram

Keywords : Ubosot, Wat Racha Orasaram Rachaworaviharn, Wat Jomthong

Site common name	Wat Racha Orasaram Rachaworaviharn
Site alternative name	Wat Jomthong
Type of artwork	Architecture
Sub district	Bang Kho
District	Khet Chom Thong
Province	Bangkok
Region	Central
Country	Thailand
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 13.702877 Long : 100.464359
Geographic Coordinates UTM	Zone : 47 P Hemisphere : N E : 658353.83 N : 1515345.84
Place of artwork	In the sacred zone

History of production	Wat Racha Orasaram was restored in the reign of King Rama II by his son, Prince Jetsadabodin, who later becaome King Rama III.
Conservation	Phra Ubosot Wat Racha Orasaram was listed and declared an ancient monument in the Government Gazette, no.66 section 64 on 22 November 1949. The wall painting was first restored in 1989 AD by copying the whole painting before new plastering and pasting the copy. Later in 2002 AD, the Fine Arts Department cleaned the wall surface and filled the colour layer, background layer and the wall layer. The painting was restored again in 2007 AD by adding colour.
Art	Phra Ubosot Wat Racha Orasaram is a large brick-and-stucco building with large veranda pillars without lotus-shaped echinus. The roof is also made from bricks and drops the traditional elements at the cornice, for instancec, Chorfah, Bairaka and Hang Hong. Its pediment shows some features from Chinese Art, such as Chinese procelain and symbols. The upper pediment show a bouquet and a large vase at the centre and surrounded by a pair of dragons, a pair of phoenixes and other blessing symbols. The lower pediment shows the scenery consists of a house, mountain, Khao Mo, trees and animals.
Key academic information	Wat Jomthong is believed to be built in the Ayudhya period. Later, Prince Jetsadabodin restored this temple and named Wat Raj Oros or the temple of the prince. The scholars believe that this is the first temple that has Chinese art features, which drop the traditional elements, for instancec, Chorfah, Bairaka and Hang Hong. Therefore, this style would later be called the non-traditional style. A sitting buddha image with Dhyana mudra gesture is installed inside the ubosot. King Rama IV stored King Rama III’s relics and birth inscription inside the figure in 1854 AD and named this buddha image “Phra Phuttha Anantakhun Adulyayanbopit”. The interior wall painting is about Chinese furniture and religious stuff.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Rattanakosin
Age	19th century AD
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Theravada
Religion and belief	Theravada Buddhism
Related artwork	The construction, the decoration and the painting are related to Chinese Art.

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-05-26
Record creator	Patsaweesiri Premkulanan
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