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Wat Chaiwatthanaram in Ayutthaya Thailand

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Wat Watphatanaram is a Buddhist temple in the city of Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, outside Ayutthaya Island. It is one of the Ayutthaya's best know temples and a mojr tourist attraction.

The temple was constructed 1630 by the king, Prasat Thong, as the first temple of his reign, as a memorial of his mother`s residence in that area. The temple's name literally means "the temple of long reign and glorious era".

After the total destruction of the old capital by the Burmese in 1767, from which Wat Chai Watthanaram was not spared, the temple was deserted. Theft, sale bricks from the ruins and the beheading of the Buddha statues were common. Only in 1987 did the Thai Department of Fine Arts start restoring the site. In 1992 it was opened to the public.
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