Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan or Wat Arun (Thai pronunciation: [wát ʔarun], "Temple of Dawn") is a Buddhist temple (wat) in capital of Thailand Yai district of Bangkok, Thailand, on the Thonburi west bank of the Chao Phraya River. The temple derives its name from the Hindu god Aruna, often personified as the radiations of the rising sun. Wat Arun is among the best known of Thailand's landmarks and also the sunrise of the morning reflects off the surface of the temple with pearly opalescence. Although the temple had existed since at least the seventeenth century, its distinctive prang (spires) were built in the first nineteenth century throughout the reign of King avatar II.
A Buddhist temple had existed at the site of Wat Arun since the time of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. It was then called Wat Makok, after the village of Bang Makok in that it had been placed. (Makok is the Thai name for the Spondias pinnata plant) in keeping with the historiographer patrician Damrong Rajanubhab, the temple was shown in French maps during the reign of King Narai (1656–1688). The temple was renamed Wat Chaeng by King Taksin when he established his new capital of Thonburi close to the temple, following the fall of Ayutthaya. It is believed that Taksin vowed to revive the temple after passing it at dawn. The temple enshrined the Emerald Buddha image before it was transferred to Wat Phra Kaew on the river's eastern bank in 1785. The temple was located in grounds of the royal palace throughout Taksin's reign, before his successor, Rama I, moved the palace to the alternative aspect of the watercourse. It was abandoned, for a long period of your time, until avatar II, who improved the temple and extended the temple to 70m.
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