A five-bay Panare ordination hall with crown-shaped stucco arches over every door and window, registered in 2001, no longer used for ceremonies, and looked after by the monastery that moved away from it.
วัดเทพนิมิต · Wat Thepnimit
By the BAANLYY Editorial Team · Last checked 29 October 2026
| Official name | วัดเทพนิมิต — Wat Thepnimit |
|---|---|
| Where | Ban Klang, Panare, Pattani |
| Royal temple class | Not established from an official register. |
| Monastic order | Not recorded in any register we could read. |
| Ancient monument | Registered national ancient monument Royal Gazette vol. 118, special part 127 ng, 21 December B.E. 2544 Page 1 of the instrument was read by eye at 400 dpi. It is a Fine Arts Department announcement registering ancient monuments and determining their land boundaries, covering Pattani province only, with two items: item 1 is โบราณสถานวัดเทพนิมิต at Ban Klang, Panare, and item 2 is โบราณสถานมัสยิดรายอ at Talu Ban, Sai Buri. It is signed by Group Captain Awut Ngoenchuklin as Director-General. The scan's digits are not reliable, so the volume, part, date and the area of 8 rai 0 ngan 50 square wa are taken from the structured register and the scan is cited for the instrument and the item list. |
| Coordinates | 6.825709, 101.492210 Fine Arts Department FADGIS monument point layer 2, monument id 0005298; put back through the department's subdistrict polygon layer 13, which returns บ้านกลาง in Panare — the subdistrict named in the 2544 gazette instrument read for this page |
Thai temple histories mix two different kinds of statement, and this guide keeps them apart. What a register, a gazette entry, an inscription or a dated royal act shows is one thing. What the chronicles and the temple itself hold is another, and it is worth telling as what it is.
No founding year is published for this monastery by any state source consulted. The registered ancient monument is the monastery's buildings; the custodian the register names is Wat Si Sudachan, not Wat Thepnimit, which is consistent with the department's condition note that the place is no longer used for religious ceremonies.
The story the Fine Arts Department tells about Wat Thepnimit is not a founding story. It is a story about leaving. The register, quoting the department's inventory of heritage in the five southern border provinces, records that this is an old monastery of the Ayutthaya or early Rattanakosin period, formerly called Wat Ban Klang. Then it quotes a different monastery's account of itself: at Wat Si Sudachan they say that Wat Thepnimit, or Wat Ban Klang, stood not far off, that Muslim households had settled all round it, that daily life there became inconvenient for the monks, and that they therefore went out and built a new monastery — the one telling the story. From that the department reasons that Wat Thepnimit is probably the older of the two.
Read carefully, that is a demographic account of a village in Panare district recorded by the state as the reason a Buddhist monastery was left behind, and it is the kind of thing a temple guide usually smooths over. It is printed here because it is what the department publishes and because it explains everything else about the site. Today the register lists Wat Si Sudachan as both owner and custodian of the registered monument, and the department's condition line reads: in a fairly ruined and decayed state, from lack of care and from damage, not in use for religious ceremonies. The monument is a monastery looked after by a different monastery, a kilometer or so away.
What survives is worth the trip for anyone interested in southern Thai building. The ordination hall is a Thai-form building of five bays, raised about a meter and a half above the ground with a veranda all round and an outer colonnade carrying the eaves. The floor was fired clay tile and part of it is concrete since restoration. The roof is Thai tile on three tiers with an eaves skirt all round. The gable is left plain with no ornament at all — unusual, and a decision rather than a loss. There are two door leaves front and back and five windows a side, and every opening has a stucco arch over it in the crown shape, a mongkut, which is the one piece of display the builders allowed themselves.
The other two buildings are the kind of timber architecture that is disappearing along this coast. The preaching hall stands about 30 meters north-east of the ordination hall, 8.29 by 14.62 meters, facing west, on square timber posts set on square lime footings, with a gabled clay-tile roof and an eaves skirt all round; its south gable is painted with deities and figures whose subject the department could not identify. The floor inside is split bamboo laid at five levels for different uses, with timber rails walling three sides and the west side left open with stairs on both. In front of it is the sala bat, 3.90 by 5.15 meters, where the monks' bowls were set out for the village to fill at festivals — a small open timber pavilion on six octagonal posts, four of them carrying the roof with their capitals carved as upturned lotus petals.
The ordination hall: Thai-form, five bays, the floor raised about 1.5 meters with a veranda all round and an outer colonnade taking the eaves, a triple-tiered Thai-tile roof with an eaves skirt, and a gable left deliberately plain and unornamented.
The crown-shaped stucco arches, mongkut form, over all of it — two door leaves front and back and five windows on each side, every opening arched. On a building this plain they are the whole of the decoration.
The floor of the hall: fired clay tile, with part of it replaced in concrete during restoration, which is a quick way to see where the repairs have been.
The timber preaching hall about 30 meters north-east, 8.29 by 14.62 meters, facing west on square posts set on square lime footings, roofed in clay tile with an eaves skirt all round. Its south gable is painted with deities and figures the department could not identify, and inside the split-bamboo floor is laid at five different levels, walled on three sides with timber rails and open to the west with stairs both sides.
The sala bat in front of it, 3.90 by 5.15 meters, open on all sides on six octagonal posts standing on rendered brick footings — four of them carry the roof and their capitals are carved as upturned lotus petals.
This is a working place of worship for millions of people rather than an attraction, and it is treated as one at the gate. Where a figure below is blank, no source we are prepared to cite states it.
| Hours | Not established from an official source. |
|---|---|
| Admission | Not established from an official source. |
| Dress | A registered monument rather than an active monastery, but still consecrated ground. Cover shoulders and knees and take shoes off before entering the ordination hall. |
| Photography | No source we found states a rule, so we print none. |
| Getting there | Ban Klang subdistrict, Panare district. The register names Wat Si Sudachan, a short distance away, as the custodian of the monument. |
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The Fine Arts Department's condition record says it is in a fairly ruined and decayed state from lack of care and from damage, and is not used for religious ceremonies. The register names a different monastery, Wat Si Sudachan, as its owner and custodian.
No state source consulted publishes a year. The register places it in the Ayutthaya period or the early Rattanakosin period and names neither a founder nor a date, and no inscription or excavation has fixed one.
Yes, under section 7 of the Ancient Monuments Act B.E. 2504, by the Royal Gazette announcement of 21 December B.E. 2544, with a protected area of 8 rai 0 ngan 50 square wa. It is item 1 of a two-item announcement for Pattani; item 2 is Masjid Rayo at Talu Ban in Sai Buri.
The crown-shaped stucco arches over every door and window of the ordination hall. The building is otherwise very plain, with an unornamented gable, so the arches carry the whole of its decoration.
A small open pavilion where the monks' alms bowls are set out so villagers can fill them, used mainly at festivals. The one here is 3.90 by 5.15 meters on six octagonal timber posts, four of which carry the roof with capitals carved as upturned lotus petals.
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Last checked 29 October 2026
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