The Wat Makut is a second class Royal temple located on the edge of Bangkok’s historical center Rattanakosin.
The temple, its full name being Wat Makut Kasattriyaram Ratchaworawiharn is named after its founder, King Mongkut (Rama IV), who reigned from 1851 until 1868. Mongkut, who spent 27 years as a Buddhist monk before being crowned King, founded the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, an order of Theravada Buddhism.
The temple was built next to the Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem that had been dug out to serve as a moat protecting the old center of town, called Rattanakosin. Construction of the Wat Makut was finished in 1868.