New home for Golden Buddha
Wat Traimit Wittayaram is building a new hall, the Phra Maha Mondop, to house the world's largest Buddha statue cast from pure gold.
Currently the statue, weighing about five and a half tons, sits in a small room that is less than adequate for the 2,000 people who show up at the temple to pay their respects every day.
The foundation stone for the new hall will be laid within this month and it will take two years to complete. The temple is next to Hua Lamphong railway station.
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