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#Thailand#Pathum Thani#Sam Khok#Attraction "Singha Temple"" or Wat Singha located on the west of the Chao Phraya River. This place is an ancient temple that has a pagoda, church, an ancient temple which worth to study in archeology history. The important Buddha statue of this temple are ""Luang Pho To"" from Ayutthaya period, and ""Luang Pho Phet"". Moreover, there also an urn containing the ashes of ""Luang Pho Phaya Krai"", which is the Mon monk who lived at Wat Singha. The museum is inside the cloister of the temple. Preserving antiques objects such as the Sam Khok tube, bed of the King Rama II, ""Loetla Naphalai"" when he visited Sam Khok city, the leaves of the Mon's alphabet, the Dharma cabinet, and the Buddha image.
Singha Temple is an ancient temple in the annals of Ayutthaya. The important temple in Sam Khok city. This area had been a place for migrators from Mon, immigrated to settle a new life of the Mon people for a long time. It's believed that the temple built during the reign of ""King Borom Trai Lokanat"" or in the reign of ""King Narai the Great"" during the years 1659-1667. The location of the temple is close to the Chao Phraya River. There is a canal connected for boats in and out called ""Khlong Wat Singha"".
Most of the objects that display in the museum are antiques from the old rooms of the temple. In the present day, some have not been registered as the antique object yet. An ancient Buddha statue even if the parts are not complete but with excellent craftsmanship, the beauty was still evident. The indigenous part has three-humped Sam-Khok nodules. It looks like a terracotta pod with red clay texture, eight holes Mon brick, used in the ancient period construction. Bed of the King Rama II, “Lertla Nabhalai” given to “Phaya Krai” a monk of Raman who was the abbot at that time. On the occasion of the king visit to the city of Sam Khok In the 11th month of the Buddhist Lent Festival, which falls on October 18, 1815, at that time Mon people and villagers brought lotus flowers to offer to His Majesty. His Highness gave a new name to the city of Samkhok called the city of “Pathum Thani”. As appears in ""Nirat Phukhao Thong"", written by ""Soonthornphu"". “...to the Sam Khok Sook, to ""Pinklao Lord Buddha Bamrung"" which Krungsri bestowed the name of Sam Khok as the city of Tri The name Prathum Thani is because there are lotuses…” Therefore, the bed of the king Rama II is an important evidence that linked to the origin of the current Pathum Thani province name.