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SHRINES AND RELIGIOUS PLACES
- Goddess Tuptim
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ศาลเจ้าแม่ทับทิม |
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Chao Mae Tubtim Shrine |
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One of the most fun places to visit in Bangkok is the Chao Mae
Tuptim Shrine, otherwise known as the ‘Penis Shrine’. Chao
Tuptim is the spirit who has been inhabiting the banyan tree
next to the current shrine for hundreds of years, and who
thousands of people a year come to pay homage to, leave gifts
and pray to for wealth or fertility.
But, why is it called
the Penis Shrine?
Because, years ago, a woman who prayed for
a baby finally got one. In gratitude, she brought a large wooden
penis back to the shrine and left it as a gift for Chao Tuptim.
Fast forward years later and hundreds of colorful wooden
penises now sit hammered into the earth and laid on the ground,
all around Chao Tuptim’s shrine. All are from grateful women who
got the children they asked for, or from men who got the money.
The Chao Mae Tuptim shrine is in Nai Lert Park, next to the Nai
Lert Park Hotel. Ask directions from Chidlom sky train station.
It is just a five-minute walk from there. |
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Grounds of the Swissotel Nai Lert Hotel, Chidlom-Ploenchit |
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Bangkok Noi |
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Siriraj |
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Shrines and Religious places |
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Free |
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13.74822 N |
100.54760 E |
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