Phra Pathommachedi

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Phra Pathommachedi or Phra Pathom Chedi (Thai: พระปฐมเจดีย์) is a Buddhist stupa in Thailand. The stupa is located in the Wat Phra Pathommachedi Ratcha Wora Maha Wihan (Thai: วัดพระปฐมเจดีย์ราชวรมหาวิหาร), a temple in the town center of Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand. Phra Pathommachedi is the second tallest stupa in the world. The top of its spire reaches 120.45 meters, with the base circumference of 235.50 meters. The name Phra Pathommachedi means 'the first holy stupa', and was given by King Mongkut. Historians take the stupa for one of the principal monuments of ancient Nakhon Pathom, the largest settlement of Dvaravati culture, standing with the nearby Phra Prathon Chedi (Thai: พระประโทณเจดีย์) between the 6th and the 8th centuries. An inscribed wheel of the law is associated with it. Mongkut found the older monument in ruins in 1831 and had the present chedi raised over it, and the complex was extended under Vajiravudh in the early 20th century. The site holds four ’viharas, an ordination hall, a meditation hall and a museum. It has been a place of pilgrimage and a subject of Thai poetry since the 1830s, holds an annual festival in the twelfth lunar month, and was put forward for World Heritage listing in 2009.