Wat Mangkorn

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Wat Mangkorn
(status: January 2014)

Wat Mangkorn ( Thai วัด มังกร , German: "Temple of the Dragon") is the name of the ruin of a former Buddhist temple complex ( Wat ) in the west of the historic old town of Sukhothai in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sukhothai Historical Park in Thailand .

location

Wat Mangkorn is located in the west of the old town of Sukhothai, just under two kilometers outside the western city gate (“Pratu Or”, “Or Gate”) and a good half a kilometer east of the southern beginning of the chain of hills with the so-called monasteries of the forest monks . The closest neighboring temples are Wat Phra Yuen (just under 280 meters south-southeast) and Wat Tup Khao (just under 180 meters west). The road leading from the “Pratu Or” to the chain of hills in the west was laid in a very tight arc around the wat at the site of the finding .

description

Wat Mangkorn
(status: January 2014)

The overall ensemble of the temple complex includes a bell-shaped chedi , several subordinate chedi, an assembly hall ( Wihan ), an ordination hall ( Ubosot ) with its boundary stones ( Bai Sema ), and a surrounding balustrade.

The main chedi consists of a brick construction on a laterite foundation and, gradually tapering from bottom to top, changes its floor plan several times in order to obtain a bell-like shape. Three steps of a square floor plan are followed by three with octagonal and three more with circular outlines. These carry the bell-shaped main body, on which a box-shaped attachment is finally attached. In the south of the temple complex, right next to the road, there is another, but smaller, bell-shaped chedi. Of all the other subordinate chedi, only the square bases partially rooted by trees have survived.

The podium of the ubosot is occupied by octagonal laterite columns. Further stumps of laterite columns surround the bot in the architectural form of porticos .

Ceramic balustrade in situ

Ceramic balustrade of the wat
(as of January 2014)

Wat Mangkorn is the only device in Sukhothai Historical Park, still parts of a off at Sukhothai ceramic manufactured balustrade in situ located. Ceramic components of this type and time can only be found in museums. Originally, the entire temple area was around 41 m × 43 m in circumference by such a ceramic railing.

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Commons : Wat Mangkorn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 17 ° 0 ′ 49 ″  N , 99 ° 40 ′ 38.2 ″  E