| WAT PA FAI (วัดป่าฝ้าย) |
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Wat Pa Fai or the "Monastery of the Cotton Quarter" was located on the city island of
Ayutthaya in the southern area in Pratu Chai Sub-district. The former monastery was
situated east of Somdet Phra Sri Nakharin Park and east of Wat Som.
The temple stood in a swampy area, which was before fed by the waters of a canal with
its mouth at Khlong Chakrai Yai, an extension of Khlong Tho. The area is still swampy,
but is now densely habited.
The monastery is indicated on Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map drafted in 1926, but no
traces of it could be found; and as such classified as disappeared.
Historical data about the monastery and its construction are not known.
Near Wat Pa Fai were two markets. A market on Iron Quarter Road selling sundries
and metal goods, knives, and machetes; and another fresh market called the Head of
Road Market. In front of the monastery there were shops selling books of white and
black paper. [1]
References:
[1] Markets and Production in the City of Ayutthaya before 1767: Translation and
Analysis of Part of the Description of Ayutthaya - Chris Baker - Journal of the Siam
Society, Vol. 99, 2011 - page 65-6.
Ayutthaya in the southern area in Pratu Chai Sub-district. The former monastery was
situated east of Somdet Phra Sri Nakharin Park and east of Wat Som.
The temple stood in a swampy area, which was before fed by the waters of a canal with
its mouth at Khlong Chakrai Yai, an extension of Khlong Tho. The area is still swampy,
but is now densely habited.
The monastery is indicated on Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map drafted in 1926, but no
traces of it could be found; and as such classified as disappeared.
Historical data about the monastery and its construction are not known.
Near Wat Pa Fai were two markets. A market on Iron Quarter Road selling sundries
and metal goods, knives, and machetes; and another fresh market called the Head of
Road Market. In front of the monastery there were shops selling books of white and
black paper. [1]
References:
[1] Markets and Production in the City of Ayutthaya before 1767: Translation and
Analysis of Part of the Description of Ayutthaya - Chris Baker - Journal of the Siam
Society, Vol. 99, 2011 - page 65-6.
| Text by Tricky Vandenberg - September 2009 Reviewed March 2013 |
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| (Extract of Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map - 1926) |