The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) on Friday came out to assure that the 237-year-old chapel and pagoda on the grounds of Wat Iam Woranuch in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district will not be demolished by the Purple Line rail project.
In a statement, the MRTA, the state agency overseeing the project, insisted the chapel and century-plus old pagoda would not be expropriated as feared, and promised only a limited impact from the construction on the temple premises.
The assurance follows a social media uproar against the agency, when the Facebook page run by Wat Iam Woranuch posted that the temple land would be appropriated for the 125-billion-baht mass-transit system.
The Facebook post also stated that 237-year-old chapel known as…
