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The Erawan Shrine was built in 1956 as part of the government-owned Erawan Hotel to eliminate the bad karma believed caused by laying the foundations on the wrong date. The hotel's construction was delayed by a series of mishaps, including cost overruns, injuries to laborers, and the loss of a shipload of Italian marble intended for the building.
Ratchaprasong junction and the Erawan Shrine, January 2015 Ratchaprasong (light green) adjacent to Siam District (yellow) in Pathum Wan. Ratchaprasong (Thai: ราชประสงค์, pronounced [râːt.t͡ɕʰā.prā.sǒŋ]; also spelled Rajprasong) is the name of an intersection, and a shopping district named after it, in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, adjacent to the Siam area, at the ...
Erawan is the Khmer and Thai name of the mythological elephant Airavata. The name may also refer to: Erawan Hotel, a former hotel in Bangkok; Erawan Shrine, a shrine to the god Brahma in Bangkok, located at the hotel; Grand Hyatt Erawan, a hotel in Bangkok, replacing the Erawan; The Erawan Group, a Thai hospitality company which owns the new hotel
The Erawan Hotel in 1960. The Erawan Hotel (Thai: โรงแรมเอราวัณ) was a luxury hotel in the Thai capital Bangkok.It was one of the first modern hotels built to accommodate the expansion of international air travel, and was operated by the government-owned company The Syndicate of Thai Hotels and Tourists Enterprises.
The Grand Hyatt Erawan replaced the government-owned Erawan Hotel, which had been established on the southeast corner of Ratchaprasong Intersection in 1956. One of Bangkok's top luxury hotels in the 1960s, by the 1980s the Erawan was unable to keep up with competition from private enterprises, and The Syndicate of Thai Hotels and Tourists Enterprises, the state-owned company that operated the ...
Erawan Museum (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์ช้างเอราวัณ) is a museum in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand. It is well known for its giant three-headed elephant art display. It is well known for its giant three-headed elephant art display.
The major attraction of the park is Erawan Falls, a waterfall named after Erawan, the three-headed white elephant of Hindu mythology. The seven-tiered falls are said to resemble Erawan. [4] There are four caves in the park: Mi, Rua, Wang Badan, and Phrathat. [5] Rising northeast of the waterfall area there is a breast-shaped hill named Khao Nom ...
On 17 August 2015, at 18:55 ICT (11:55 UTC), a bomb exploded inside the grounds of the Erawan Shrine, near the busy Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok's city centre. [6] [7] [8] The Royal Thai Police said that 3 kilograms (6.6 lb) of TNT had been stuffed in a pipe bomb and left under a bench near the outer rim of the grounds surrounding the shrine, and that an electronic circuit suspected ...