Wolfgang's photos with the keyword: หอระฆัง

An other and higher bell tower was constructed at the new re-creation area of this museum. No further description is written yet about this tower.

As communication to the local residents Thais used a drum or a bell in the past to call the citizen come to the temple for meditation. At the present overturned loudspeakers do the same in every village, starting 5.30 a.m.

The drum tower still is used in some Thai villages calling the citizen to come to the monastery or temple for their meditation. Usually a novice is climbing up to the tower to beat the drum.

In the past, the scripture repository is normally raised on piles over a pond to protect the palm leaf manu scripts from ants and termites. The build ing of this type can hardly be found any where in Thailand today. The one at Muang Boran has been built and preserved for posterity. The repository was brought from Wat Yai, Bang Khonthi in Samut Songkhram Province. Its original building, standing in a pond at Wat Yai, was much dilapidated. The structure is likely modeled after the Ayutthaya architectural style. The walls on the outside are invaluable old murals of the Life of the Buddha which are painted with tempera sketches gilded with gold. The murals are faded now.