Temple
Wat Mangkon Kamalawat (Dragon Lotus Temple)
Samphanthawong (Pom Prap Sattru Phai border), Chinatown, near Charoen Krung Soi 19-21, Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's largest and most important Chinese (Mahayana Buddhist) temple, established in the 1870s under the original name Wat Leng Noei Yi before King Rama V renamed it. Houses Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian shrines under dragon and lotus tiled roofs, guarded by four large Heavenly Kings statues, all connected by rooms hung with red paper lanterns.
Hours
Official source, currentMon-Fri 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Sat-Sun 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM
“Monday-Friday 06:00-17:00, Saturday-Sunday 06:00-18:00. Open Hour Remark: "open every day"”
thailandtourismdirectory.go.th · Checked 6 Aug 2026
Price
Single reportFree admission
“Admission to this temple is free.”
en.wikipedia.org · Checked 25 Jul 2026
Age suitability
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Caveats
Re-fetched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Mangkon_Kamalawat fresh this run. The page's Timings section confirms verbatim "The temple is open from 8 am to 4 pm" and confirms "Admission to this temple is free," matching the extractor's snippets exactly, so both stay single-report (Wikipedia is not the temple's own…
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