Prasat Khonburi ปราสาทค์ครบุรี
This small sight has been extensively restored into what it once looked like. This Khmer ruin is known as an arogyasala or hospital chapel.
Prang Khonburi is located in the Khonburi district of Nakhon Ratchasima province.
It is a Mahayana Buddhist temple with a simple tower and a rectangular building set inside an enclosure. There is a square pond located to the northeast.
The temple or Arohayasala served as a medical station built by order of King Jayavarman VIl
(1181-1218). During his reign 102 medical stations were built across the empire.
It was officially proclaimed as an Ancient Monument by the King on September 27th 1936.
It is just to the east of the ancient settlement site of Ban Khonburi. The laterite sanctuary closely follows a standard hospital chapel blueprint with a main, east-facing shrine and porch, intact 'library' and enclosing wall with an eastern gopura. All buildings were built with laterite stones with ...
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The temple dates back to the late Ayutthaya period, with traditional accounts estimating its establishment around 1702 AD (circa พ.ศ. 2245). The name “Phikun” likely comes from the abundance of bullet wood trees (Mimusops elengi, known as พิกุล in Thai) that once grew on the grounds. Remarkably, unlike many temples in the region destroyed during the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767 AD, Wat Phikun Sokhan never became abandoned, remaining continuously inhabited and maintained through wars and floods.
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