| WAT HOI KHONG (วัดหอยโค่ง) |
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| Wat Hoi Khong or the Monastery of the Apple Snail was located on the city island in the southwestern area of Ayutthaya in Pratu Chai sub-district. The former monastery was situated in the Somdet Phra Sri Nakharin Park, north of the restored ruin of Wat Wang Chai and east of Wat Sakae (defunct). It was formerly located on the bank of an ancient canal system, that in recent times had been altered by the construction of the Somdet Phra Sri Nakharin Park. West of the monument of Somdet Phra Sri Nakharin (behind), new trees were planted. A lot of bricks were unearthed and probably once belonged to a structure from this former temple. The monastery is indicated on Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map drafted in 1926, but no traces of it could be found; and as such classified as disappeared. A mid-19th century map indicates the monastery in nearly the same position as PBR does. Historical data about the monastery and its construction are not known. The site is located in geographical coordinates: 14° 20' 37.85" N, 100° 33' 0.11" E. |
| Text & maps by Tricky Vandenberg - July 2009 Updated May 2014 |
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| (Detail of Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map - Anno 1926) |
| (Detail of a 19th century map - map is orientated S-N) |
| (Detail of a 2007 Fine Arts Department GIS map - Courtesy of the Fine Arts Department - 3th Region) |
