Wat Tama (1) was located off the city island in the southern area of Ayutthaya in the Samphao Lom Sub-district (2). The site was on the west bank of Khu Cham (3). Wat Tawet stood to its north, while Wat Bandai Nak was to its south.
There are no traces of the monastery above ground level.
Historical data about the monastery and its construction are unknown.
The name of this sanctuary gives the impression of being a Muslim site and could have been a mosque or a Muslim prayer house (Surau).
The area along the banks of Khu Cham in the Ayutthaya period was populated by the Cham people, primarily Muslims who migrated from the coastal regions of Vietnam and Cambodia along the South China Sea.
In the 'Description of Ayutthaya', a document probably compiled early in the Bangkok era from the memories of people who had lived in Ayutthaya before 1767 CE, it is written that the Cham living in Thai Khu Village, south of the city, weaved and sold lantai mats, a high-quality soft mat made from a type of rattan, and samuk punnets, small basketwork containers. The Cham of Wat Kaeo Fa weaved cloth. Merchants brought cloth from the Khaek and Cham of Wat Kaeo Fa and Wat Lotchong to sell at shops in the Betel Bag Market, also called Green-Cloth Market. [1]
The site is not indicated on a 19th-century map, nor Phraya Boran Ratchathanin's map drafted in 1926 CE, but features on a 1974 CE Fine Arts Department map.
Based on a 2007 CE FAD map, the site was in geographical coordinates: 14° 20' 8.13" N, 100° 33' 47.84" E.
