Wat Kluei วัดกล้วย
Wat Kluei which means the Banana Monastery is an active temple located off the city island in
the eastern area. The temple is located on the east bank of the Pa Sak River. North of the temple is Wat Phichai Songkhram and south li…
Wat Kluei วัดกล้วย
Wat Kluei which means the Banana Monastery is an active temple located off the city island in
the eastern area. The temple is located on the east bank of the Pa Sak River. North of the temple is Wat Phichai Songkhram and south lies Wat Ko Kaeo.
It is a rather small monastic complex. The ordination hall (ubosot) stands in the classic east-west alignment facing river. The ubosot is built in the Late Ayutthaya style and has two elevated porches. The structure is surrounded by an inner wall, called kamphaeng kaeo (crystal wall), separating the monastic world from the secular world.
The temple is mentioned in the Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya as being the place where Luang Saraseni with his followers set up camp in December 1766.
The Phraya of Tak (later became King Takein) was promoted to Phraya Kamphaeng Phet by the Siamese King Suriyamin (Ekathat) and appointed as a brigade commander of a boat army that he had to assembled at Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon in order to confront the Burmese in the open plains southeast of Ayutthaya.
Phraya Kamphaeng Phet assigned the Phraya of Phetburi as his front guard, while Luang
Saraseni’s troops were in support. The front guard consisting of five fighting boats came in
contact with the enemy. The boats of the Phraya of Phetburi were completely encircled by
the numerous boats of the Burmese.
Phraya Kamphaeng Phet and Luang Saraseni
moored their boats, watched but did not advance to reinforce the front guard. The troops of the Phraya of Phetburi were slain and the leader, after a heroic battle, was impaled by the Burmese.
Phraya Kamphaeng Phet and Luang Saraseni fled the battlefield, did not return to the capital and set up stockades near Wat Phichai to the north Wat Kluei.
Phraya Kamphaeng Phet, seeing that Ayutthaya would been soon fall to the Burmese, decided to withdraw to the south, while Luang Saraseni fled elsewhere.
Its historical background and period of construction are unknown but the temp..
