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Wat Benchamabophit (The Marble Temple)
A temple people come back to · Bangkok, Thailand
Photo: Ian Gratton from Sutton-n-Craven, North Yorkshire, England · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Wat Benchamabophit was commissioned by King Chulalongkorn in 1899 and clad in white Italian Carrara marble, which gives it the nickname the Marble Temple. Designed by Prince Naris and completed in 1911, it blends Thai forms with European symmetry, and its cloister displays a gallery of bronze Buddha images from across Asia. It sits in the leafy Dusit district near the former royal palace grounds.
The most refined and symmetrical of Bangkok's royal temples, built from imported marble.
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