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Front patio area of Ancient Guanyin Temple (Guanyin gumiao 觀音古廟) (ศาลเจ้ากวนอิม San Tchaw Kuan Im)

From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)

The Ancient Guanyin Temple (觀音古廟) (ศาลเจ้ากวนอิม San Tchaw Kuan Im) is a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand. This one room neighborhood temple was constructed during the reign of King Rama V, roughly from 1853-1910, as specified by the temple caretaker. The caretaker said that the temple was bombed during the Japanese invasion of Thailand in 1941, but was later rebuilt. The temple regularly hosts chanting groups, the majority of whom were specified to be Teochew Chinese. The caretaker stated that the temple has no state support, but does regularly pay money to a Chinese foundation. It is not known to what extent the temple has been renovated, nor how often, but the most recent set of renovations occured in 2021. The following photos show the frontview of the temple exterior, focusing on the gate surrounding the temple patio with various signs posted: (Image 01) Information board in Thai explaining the name and a short description of the history of the temple. (Image 02) Calendar with information on festivities (solar calendar with lunar dates added); (Image 03) Sign on the left side of the fence: printed picture of Guanyin statue with Thai and English descriptions. Metadata created and compiled by: Kira Johansen.

Bangkok (Thailand); 13.739641; 100.509704

tha; eng; chi

Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0440910

Non UBC

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