A woman enters the Chao Mae Thap Thim Shrine in Bangkok on June 5. (Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut)Students from Chulalongkorn University and residents of the Saphan Lueang neighbourhood have expressed their objections against the demolition of the Chao Mae Thap Thim Shrine for a real-estate development. Instead of relocating the shrine to a new place, the PMCU should make the building and the shrine co-exist. The Chao Mae Thap Thim Shrine at Saphan Leuang is an old Chinese joss house officially built in 1970 but it is believed to have been there decades earlier. The design blueprint shows that the new shrine will look like a traditional Chinese shrine.

Source: Bangkok Post June 15, 2020 12:56 UTC