Phetcha
Wat Phra Phuttha Saiyat
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Mueang Phetchaburi, Phetchaburi

Wat Phra Phuttha Saiyat

วัดพระพุทธไสยาสน์ · Also known as: Wat Phra Non

Period
Ayutthaya period (presumed)
Highlights
Reclining Buddha

Wat Phra Phuttha Saiyat is a Mahanikai community temple thought to date from the Ayutthaya period; the Department of Religious Affairs gives its founding year as 1657.

Its reclining Buddha, about 43 m long, was originally built in the open. The temple lay abandoned until King Mongkut (Rama IV) saw the decayed image and had a corrugated-iron roof put over it; under King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) a tiled roof was built, creating today's reclining-Buddha vihara.

The image lies on its right side with its head to the west, resting on two lotus-shaped pillows, and is the fourth-largest reclining Buddha in Thailand. Restoration in 1997 revealed a tunnel inside it holding many artefacts, mostly late-Ayutthaya Buddha images.

Sources

Summarised from the Thai Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0); location from OpenStreetMap / Wikidata.