Heritage walk · Sacred sites
The shortest walk here and the densest: four religions in under two kilometres of Thonburi riverbank, every congregation still active. Start from Itsaraphap MRT or the river pier at Wat Kalayanamit; end on the white mountain of Wat Prayoon by Memorial Bridge.
The line is a real street-following walking route (OSRM foot profile, © OpenStreetMap contributors) — 3.0 km, about 40 minutes at walking pace. Follow the numbers.
Rama III-era royal temple; the viharn was built around its 15-metre seated Buddha, Luang Pho To, patron of safe voyages — Chinese junk crews prayed here before sailing.
Gazetted 1949 · 77 years ago
A Hokkien Guanyin shrine older than the Chakri dynasty, kept by descendants of the community that arrived with King Taksin. The carved roof timbers are original.
288 m from stop 1 · 4 min walk
The Portuguese church of 1770; the present terracotta dome is Rigotti and Tamagno's third building, 1916. The lanes behind still bake the Portuguese kudi chin cake over charcoal.
507 m from stop 2 · 7 min walk
A family house turned museum of the Siamese-Portuguese story — three small floors, the cake downstairs, run by the descendants themselves.
192 m from stop 3 · 3 min walk
The White Mosque — built in the reign of Rama I by Ayutthaya-descended Muslims as a Thai temple hall with a mihrab; the only mosque in this form anywhere.
894 m from stop 4 · 12 min walk
The Bunnag family temple of 1828. Its white mountain-chedi's restoration took UNESCO's top Asia-Pacific conservation award in 2013; the turtle pond below is an artificial sacred mountain, Khao Mo.
1133 m from stop 5 · 15 min walk