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, current

Mon-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 report

Free admission

“Admission to this temple is free.”

en.wikipedia.org · Checked 25 Jul 2026

Age suitability

Not verified

Not verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.

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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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