Stamps featuring the Thai temples located in the Bangkok area, namely: 1. Wat Ratcha Orasaraam in Thonburi; 2. Wat Ratchapradit in Rattanakosin; 3. Wat Ratchabophit in Phra Nakhon; 4. Wat Suthat in Phra Nakhon

Wat Ratcha Orasaraam  erected in the Ayutthaya Period and located on the western bank of Khlong Sanam Chai in Thonburi. It was formerly known as Wat Chom Thong  and its current full name is Wat Ratcha Orasaraam Ratcha Worawihaan. The temple's style is a combination of Chinese and Thai architectural features, e.g. the roofs of the ubosot and of the viharn do not have the typical Thai decorations of the chofa and bai raka, while their gable ends are adorned with colourful Chinese porcelain. The temple's viharn is surrounded by a gallery with Buddha images, as well as by multiple small pagodas, while on the inside it houses a large reclining Buddha image.

Wat Ratchabophit  a Buddhist temple, just off Rattanakosin Island in Bangkok, located along the north-south canal that runs parallel with the Eastside of Suan Saran Rom, the palace garden or park in Phra Nakhon. This royal temple, built during the reign of King Rama V, is famed for its western-styled Bobby-like door guards, as well as for its unique circular courtyard that surrounds a gilded chedi of King Chulalongkorn, as well as other and later members of the royal family.

Wat Ratchapradit  a small Buddhist temple on Rattanakosin Island, located opposite of the royal cemetery of Wat Ratchabophit. It was commissioned by King Rama IV, who had it built in dedication to the Thammayut Buddhist Sect. It is built mainly in grey marble and the main chedi has a golden spire. The inside features ten stone columns that are reportedly inscribed with religious verses in Pali and Thai, composed by King Mongkut himself, the ashes of whom are today kept underneath the principal Buddha image in the ubosot. As a memorial to this king, the murals inside the ordination hall depict 12 royal ceremonies and a solar eclipse, a reference to his 1868 journey to Wako (หว้ากอ) in Prachuap Khirikhan to a observe a solar eclipse, which he had predicted himself according to his own calculations, but where he also attracted the malaria that killed him.

 

 

Wat Suthat a  temple in Bangkok started construction during the reign of Rama I, but that was completed only during the rule of Rama III. The wihaan houses the oldest remaining Buddha image from the Sukhothai period, Phra Sri Sakyamuni and has impressive murals of the jataka and of the Ramakien. This temple is identified with the Eight Reign as the base of the principal Buddha image contains the ashes of Rama VIII, of whom a statue is erected in the temple's northwestern corner of the inner court, which is surrounded by a gallery of Buddha images. Merit-making for the late King Ananda Mahidol is performed annually at Wat Suthat on June 9th, the day of his death. The temple's full name is Wat Suthat Thepwarahrahm, and it is one of the only few temples in Thailand conferred with the highest royal title of Rajavora Maha Vihaan, hence its full name and title is Wat Suthat Thepwarahrahm Rajavora Maha Vihaan, which is sometime transcribed Wat Suthat Thepwararam Rachaworamahawihaan.