Spirituality you can raise a drink to: Buddhist temple built out of one million beer bottles

[Admin]

Really cool story about a temple built out using drink bottles as a construction material. There is an article about it and some awesome pictures below.

Read the article here.

Buddhist temple built out of one million beer bottles
A temple has been built by monks in northeast Thailand who used over a million recycled beer bottles to make the walls and roof.



Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as Wat Lan Kuad or 'the Temple of a Million Bottles', is in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, 400 miles from the capital Bangkok.

The Buddhist monks began collecting bottles in 1984 and they collected so many that they decided to use them as a building material.

They encouraged the local authorities to send them more and they have now created a complex of around 20 buildings using the beer bottles, comprising the main temple over a lake, crematorium, prayer rooms, a hall, water tower, tourist bathrooms and several small bungalows raised off the ground which serve as monks quarters.

The bottles do not lose their colour, provide good lighting and are easy to clean, the men say.

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I found a collection of pictures of this place... VERY cool! Here are some of my favorite images. Check out the rest of the pictures here.







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[Zoe]

I should send this link to my friends back on Greek Row. They could build an entire frathouse out of the empty Corona bottles. Corona, I'm not kidding. *blech*

[-Ra-]

OMG, so sweet! XD *forwards to his little bro*

Ra,

[Naughty KP]

I bet those monks sure had alot of 'fun' while building that!

*burp*

NKP