watthakarong
Wat Tha or the "Monastery of the Landing" was located off the city island in the western area in Ban Pom sub-district. The monastery stood on the south bank of the present Chao Phraya River and in the immediate vicinity of Wat Ka Rong. Its former site is now the location of the present-day Tha Ka Rong monastery.Depending of which version of the Ayutthayan chronicles is consulted, sources speak about Wat Ka Rong or Wat Tha Ka Rong or the "Monastery of the Landing of the Crying Crow"; Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map of 1926 indicates clearly two monastic structures being Wat Tha (the Monastery of the Landing) and Wat Ka Rong (the Monastery of the Crying Crow). The two temples were eventually merged to establish the present Wat Tha Ka Rong or the "Monastery of the Landing of the Crying Crow". The Chronicles of Ayutthaya mention the temple's existence for the first time in the mid-sixteenth century, but the monastery has been likely established much earlier.