Phra Chedi Thong (The Twin Golden Stupas)

Two of the Phra Chedi Thong or the Twin Golden Stupas and the Royal Pantheon as seen from the west side of Phra Mondop
Phra Chedi Thong (The Twin Golden Stupas)
King Rama I built these two large golden stupas, dedicating one to his father and the other to his mother in an act of Buddhist merit-making. The stupas are square with redented based and spired pinnacles, a style popular during the first three reigns of the Bangkok era. They are made of brick, covered in copper foil and gilt.
Each of the stupas are supported by a row of twenty demons and monkeys whose distinctive features, colours and crowns mark them as individual characters from the Ramakian, the Thai version of the Ramayana epic. The fact that they all wear crowns indicate that they are demons and monkeys of noble rank.

Demons and monkeys caryatides of one of the two Phra Chedi Thongs

Information
: Tourism Authority of Thailand Tourist Service Center
: Hotel & Bungalows in Bangkok
: The Sights of Rattanakosin, The Committee for the Rattanakosin Bicentennial Celebration Published on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of Bangkok, 1982, P. 175-185.
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