The top of the canopy over Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit was hit by a thunderbolt in the reign of King Sua. The roof was tumbled down, hit the image’s head and made it fall onto the ground. Then the old building was renovated and changed from the old form to a wihan (the form like a chapel or the Ubosot). Later the wihan was renovated again in the reign of King Boromakot. After Ayutthaya was completely destroyed, Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit was deserted, and became damaged. The image’s topknot and an arm were broken. King Chulalongkorn of Rattanakosin period commissioned renovating the image in 1956. Field Marshal Por Phibunsongkhram, a Thai Prime Minister, assigned building a new wihan for Phra Mongkhon Bophit, the wihan we can see nowadays.