WAT TRAIMIT AND THE BUDDHA'S MYSTERY IN SOLID GOLD...
A small temple which from the outside presents no extraordinary peculiarities and which, if we do not know what is inside does not arouse especially the curiosity of the tourist. First you have to know the story that is for the least surprising. It all began around 1930 when it was decided to develop the banks of the Chao Phraya River. In the Chinatown there was an old temple abandoned for a long time and no one was going any more. It was decided to destroy the temple but was a problem because it contained a large statue of Buddha in gilded stucco. It was a problem because in Thailand all the statues of Buddha are venerated and we can not so easily destroy them. Faced with this problem we decided of course not to destroy the statue but to move it in a temple located in the vicinity, Wat Traimit in the Chinatown. The problem was that the temple did not have a building large enough to receive the statue and it was decided to leave it outside, loosely sheltered under a sheet metal
