The Fine Arts Department (FAD) plans to use 3D scan technology to monitor the tilting of Wat Arun’s main stupa.
FAD director general Phanombut Chantharachot said a recent survey found a slight tilt around the top of the wat’s main structure, located next to the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok’s Yai district.
Slight subsidence has also caused four smaller-size stupas and the other four mondop (shrine-like structures with spired roofs) surrounding the main stupa to lean slightly towards the main structure.
Mr Phanombut said the…
