Phra Ubosot Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram

Keywords : Ubosot, Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram, Wat Phra Kaew, Phra Ubosot Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram, Phra Ubosot

Site common name	Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram
Site alternative name	Wat Phra Kaew
Type of artwork	Architecture
Sub district	Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang
District	Khet Phra Nakhon
Province	Bangkok
Region	Central
Country	Thailand
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 13.751161 Long : 100.492654
Geographic Coordinates UTM	Zone : 47 P Hemisphere : N E : 661381.13 N : 1520706
Place of artwork	Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram in the Grand Palace

History of production	By the order of King Rama I, Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram and the Grand Palace was built simultaneously in 1782. The temple was completed in 1784 and the celebration was later held in 1785.
Conservation	The major restoration usually take place every 50 years when there is a celebration of the capital city. Therefore, the previous restoration were in the reign of King Rama III, V, VII and IX.
Art	Phra Ubosot Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram is a traditional Thai brick-and-stucco architecture in rectangular plan with boundary and faces the east. The three-tiered wooden roof is decorated by blue roof tiles, with orange and yellow roof tiles at the edge line. The cornice is decorated with Chorfah, Bairaka, Naksadung and Hanghong. The floral-carved-wooden pediment is coated with gold lacquer and glass, whose centre displays Vishnu riding Garuda. The exterior wall is decorated with gold-lacquer-and-glass Phoom Khao Bindh pattern, while there are Garuda holding Naga sculptures around the pedestal. Three doorways can be found both in the front and the back, with three pairs of bronze lion figures at the front staircase. There are pillars in dodecagonal plan surrounding the ubosot in the veranda area. Its echinus is a lotus shape and brackets are supporting the eaves.
Key academic information	1. Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram lies in the Northeast of the Grand Palace. As it was built by the order of King Rama I to be the temple within the precinct of the palace, in the same way as Wat Phra Sri Sanphet was built within the precinct of the palace in Ayudhya. Therefore, the temple has a section containing only chapel and none monks’ livning quarters 2. Not only Phra Phuttha Maha Mani Rattanapatimakorn or the Emerald Buddha, the sacred buddha image which is considered as the palladium of the kingdom, is housed in the Ubosot, but other important buddha images, for example, Phra Phuttha Yodfahchulalok, Phra Phuttha Loetlahnaphalai and Phra Samphutthaphannih, are also housed here. 3. Both royal rites and other royal ceremonies, such as The Royal Seasonal Cloak Changing and The Royal Ploughing Ceremony, are observed in the Ubosot Wat Phra Sri Rattanasatsadaram
Period	Historical Period
Age	19th century AD
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Theravada
Religion and belief	Theravada Buddhism
Legend	The Emerald Buddha Mythology
Related artwork	Ayutthaya architectural style and conception.

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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