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Wat Chedi Daeng วัดเจดีย์แดง

Wat Chedi Daeng is located north of the main island on the Phaniat peninsula. Wat Chedi Daeng is an active monastery. It is prized by
many locals who believe the monks have special powers for casting spells that can
protect motor vehicles. Many people come here from all over the city to have monks
bless their cars and motorcycles.

In contrast to its name, there is not actually a red chedi at the temple. A bell tower
(painted red) and a small bell shaped chedi are viewable by boat from Khlong Bang
Khuat. There is also a large redented chedi behind the sermon hall, which is in the Late
Ayutthaya period style. A number of smaller monuments exist at this site with unusual
designs.

Historically, Wat Chedi Daeng played an important role in a number of conflicts. King
Borommakot (1733-1758) set up an army of 10,000 troops at Wat Chedi Daeng to
prepare for battle with Cambodia.

Another account tells the story in a slightly different way.

King Borommakot set up an army at Wat Chedi Daeng (Monastery of the Holy Red Funeral Monument) in 1750, a year of the Horse, in order to assist the Khmers (not to attack the Khmers) in fighting off an attack of the Vietnamese.

In 1767, a group of 2,000 Chinese troops volunteered to cross Khlong Chang and set
up stockades at the elephant kraal and Wat Chedi Daeng to protect the city from
Burmese invasion. Unfortunately, these professionally trained soldiers lacked enough
time to reinforce proper stockades. When the Burmese attacked, the Chinese troops were forced to flee to land opposite the river. The Burmese army of King Mengra then set up army camps around the city of Ayutthaya.

Another account of the same event is this.

In 1767 two thousand Chinese volunteers under Luang Aphai Phiphat, intended to stop
the Burmese by trying to put up a stockade at Pho Sam Ton area across Khlong Chang.
Mün Thip Sena, reinforced the Chinese in the rear by encamping one thousand troops at
Wat Borommawong (Monastery of the Sea of Grass). The Chinese troops did not set up stockades at the Elephant Kraal or at Wat Chedi Daeng.

One of the stockades was reinforced with bastions at Wat Chedi Daeng. Nemiao, the
general of the armies in the stockade at the Three Fig Trees, had the Burmese troops
burn down that palace at the Elephant Kraal. Then he had them set up stockades at the
Monastery of the Holy Red Funeral Monument, at the Monastery of the Three Preaching
Halls, at the Monastery of the Spired Building, at the at the Monastery of the Tent, at the
Monastery of the Glorious Fig. Bastions were constructed in each and every stockade,
large and small guns taken up into them, and then these were fired at the Capital. Ayutthaya fell soon afterward.

A visit to this temple is not a common tourist activity. It’s a historic temple that is visited by the local community. It’s a small piece of Thai history.

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