[2025 Phra Pradaeng Attraction] Travel Guide for Wat Songtham Worawihan (Updated May)

Wat Songtham Worawihan, Samut Prakan Province 🙏It is an ancient temple in the Mon Buddhist sect, built at the same time as Nakhon Khuen Khan. 🪷The large 3-storey Phraman Chedi enshrines Buddha images in various postures around it. The ordination hall is built in a brick and mortar style, and is notable for its paired round pillars, totaling 56. The reason for having so many pillars is to support the spacious ordination hall terrace. Inside, there is a Sukhothai-style Buddha image in the Mara-Vijaya posture in a Mon-style carved wooden frame. 👍Inside the temple, there are large centipede flags and swan pillars, which are symbols of the Mon people. 📍 Tambon Talat, Amphoe Phra Pradaeng, Samut Prakan Province #tripfreeaccommodation #WatSongthamWorawihan #SamutPrakan

The atmosphere of playing saba 20-04-2567 Bon Wat Songtham Today, I would like to briefly reminisce about the past of saba. The purpose of playing saba is to let young men from other villages (other villagers) get to know girls, while the adults watch from a distance. In the past, young Mon men and women from Pak Lat would go to work in the rice fields at Bang Phli. When the rice farming season ended, they would return home to Phra Pradaeng. The adults wanted to give the girls in the village time to meet young men from other villages, so they organized a saba game under their houses. The girls would prepare the place, break the soil, level the area, make a courtyard, and decorate the saba with flowers, string jasmine, and prepare cool drinking water. The saba game would start at around 7:00 p.m. and end at around midnight. In one saba, there would be about 10-14 girls joining the game, depending on the location and the single girls. The clothes the girls wore would vary depending on their status. Overall, the colors were as colorful as candy, with shawls adorned with flowers. #Songkran2024Travel

#dreamvoyage Wat Songtham is an ancient temple in the Mon Buddhist sect, built at the same time as Nakhon Khuen Khan. Phra Pradaeng is like a melting pot of diverse cultures, with Thais, Chinese, and Mon living together. The Mon culture is reflected in one of the important temples in Nakhon Khuen Khan. Wat Songtham Worawihan is one of the second-class royal temples, built at the same time as Nakhon Khuen Khan during the reign of King Phutthaloetla Naphalai, Rama II, with His Royal Highness Prince Krom Phra Ratchawang Bowon Sathan Mongkhon as the head of the project. However, it is different from other temples because it is built in Mon architecture, with a large three-storey Raman pagoda enshrining Buddha images in various postures around it. The ordination hall is built in brick and mortar style, and is notable for its 56 pairs of round pillars arranged in pairs. The reason for having so many pillars is to support the spacious ordination hall terrace. Inside is enshrined a Sukhothai-style Buddha image in the Mara-Vijaya posture in a carved Mon-style wooden frame. The entire chapel is decorated with murals of the life of the Buddha and the Vessantara Jataka on the walls. The ceiling is decorated with two Mon paintings. The vihara is built in brick and mortar and decorated with teak gables and raka leaves. In front of the principal Buddha image in a metal niche, there is a replica of the Buddha's footprint decorated with mother-of-pearl for Buddhists to pay homage to. It is considered a center of high-class Mon art that is still in perfect condition and beautiful, hard to find in Thailand. Open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.