[2025 Hat Yai Attraction] Travel Guide for Wat Thawon Wararam (Updated Jun)

Wat Thawararam started from a small point as a temple of Wat Thawararam in 1954. It is said that there was a monk named Phra Jiu Sae Heng (Hong Chiu), nicknamed Tin Cha, a Teochew native who was the first preceptor to reside at Wat Thawararam Hat Yai. He was a monk with great ability in rituals. Whenever he performed a ceremony, there were many people joining the ceremony. This caused the Chinese and Vietnamese to have faith in him and donate money to build a chapel, which is where the monks perform their religious duties. A year later, the abbot Bun Hee, nicknamed We Yen, submitted a request to the government to upgrade the temple to a temple under the Annam Nikaya sect. Later, Mr. Attakawi Sunthon and Mrs. Long donated 14 rai of land to Wat Thawararam, which is next to Wat Kok Naw. At present, it is the temple land of Wat Thawararam to build a Chinese language school to provide education to the general public. Today, Wat Thawararam is one of the famous temples in Hat Yai. It has beautiful Chinese architecture that is worth studying. It is another valuable cultural heritage of Hat Yai.

I unexpectedly came to a Buddhist temple.

#2024Travel Review Hat Yai, Thailand is a world-famous tourist resort city. Thousands of tourists come to Hat Yai for sightseeing and vacation every day. There are many Chinese cultural temple attractions in Hat Yai. This time I will introduce a Chinese cultural temple attraction that I visited in 2024: Qing Shou Temple. Free to visit and take photos📸, no tickets required, you need to take off your shoes when entering the temple building. The temple was built by King Rama IV and has a history of a hundred years. The main building of the temple is tall, majestic and magnificent, and the external structure decoration is full of Chinese cultural and artistic style and is exquisite. Very suitable for taking photos📸, definitely a good photo. Praying in the temple is very effective, and residents from the surrounding area come here to pray every day. There are not many tourists in the temple, and it is very quiet and peaceful. You can take your time to visit and take photos here📸. There are public toilets and chairs for tourists to rest in the temple. Address: 149 ถนน ศุภสารรังสรรค์, Hat Yai, Hat Yai District, Songkhla 90110 Opening hours: All day #Thailand #Temple

Thawararam Hat Yai is located on Supasarnrangsan Road, Soi 1, Hat Yai, Hat Yai District, Songkhla 90110, Thailand. It is near Wat Chu Chang. It is a place for Chinese religious ceremonies. It is a place of worship for Thai-Chinese, Muslim, Vietnamese, etc. Inside Wat Thawararam, there is a very large Chinese-style pagoda. It is so high that I did not even count how many floors it was. It was raining and I had limited time. Nearby is a large Buddha statue in a sitting position holding a staff of some kind. This large Buddha statue is probably the Chinese Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. In Chinese, it is called Ti Chang Wong Pu Sak. In the Annam sect, it is called Phra Malai Thera Chao. In Vietnamese, it is called Dia Tang Yueng Botak, which is an arhat who has passed away for 300 years.