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Wat Lokaya Sutha (unknown age)
This temple, constructed at an unknown date, was largely destroyed when the city of Ayutthaya fell to the Burmese in 1767. Its name means "The Temple of the Earth". In the ruined viharn is a 42 meter recumbent Buddha statue.
Bibliography:
All images copyright 2003 by Professor Robert D. Fiala of Concordia University, NE
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