ABSTRACT

                  1) The objectives of this research were: to search the important religious places of temples in Bangkok with tourist attractions for both Thai and foreign tourists.

                  2) To study background and importance of the religious places in the temples of Bangkok with tourist attractions for both Thai and foreign tourists.

                  3) To study administration for conservation of religious places and tourism of temples in Bangkok.

                  This search was to study of qualitative and documentation research, a researcher collected data on the field study. The samples were: Pagoda, Stupa, main chapel, the main Buddhist Image, shrine hall, cloister, the Buddhist library, Buddhist preaching hall, metal palace in the temples for 40 temples. The instruments used were: from the depth interviews of interviewees from abbots, or representatives, assistant abbots, authorized persons concerning with responsibility of the important religious places for tourism.

                  The results were found: 1) the important religious places of temples with tourist attractions of both Thai and foreign tourists having the important factors were the main Buddha images, convocation halls, stupas, pagodas, shrine halls, and the importance of the religious places was Dhamma materials showed the religious symbols and three Gems such as the main Buddhist images showed Buddha’s symbols, the convocation halls as symbols for Buddhist ceremony of  Buddhist Sangha, Stupas, and pagodas as symbols to establish the Buddha relics, shrine halls showed Buddhist architecture, mural paintings showed  Buddhist principal doctrines. The importance of religious places was  firstly architectural buildings had been Buddhist believes and the Buddhists had believed on the faith and taken to do Buddhists ceremony.

                  2) Background and the importance of religious places were importance as a part of mindful attractions and the religious places with importance as a part of mindful believes on history and the confidence index of Thais in a period of time for construction of religious places. The Thai tourists would visit for visual education with religious objectives but foreign tourists would visit for visual education to seek knowledge of history and culture and the belief of former and current Thais, that those religious places would be reaction of a historical and cultural dimensions and the believes of former and current Thais as well. The religious places would be found that each one would have factors showed historical, cultural and social dimensions as well such as example convocation halls, shrine halls would be displayed of design architecture according to model of mechanic’s lineages of each period and as symbols to establish the Buddha images, more mural paintings.   The mural paintings had been in vocation halls and shrine halls would be displayed of history of the Buddha and Jataka that showed Buddhist doctrines used to be practice together. These mural paintings of each period would have different paintings. The same paintings of each period would be different paintings. These were displayed dimensions of believes and culture of constructors. The tourists visited for visual education would understand Thai society as well.

                  3) Administration for conservation of religions places and tourism had at least two importances as mentioned. To be stand on of the religious places for along time was depend on administration of persons with responsibility. The persons with responsibility were the most abbots and assistant abbots that administration of persons with responsibility would have different according to important aspects of temples and tourists who visited for education tour. The most temples were was Phra Sriratana Satsadaram and Wat Phra Chetuphon Vimon Mangkaram and would have modern administration that there were many caretakers as layman with different responsibility in clean and security of properties and the temples concerning with state government division would be conserved and restored in cooperation but the temples had been a few tourists, there was administration by abbots and assistant abbots assigned some one taking responsibility. However by overview of case study cooperation of communities to preserve we=as not too much.

            Suggestions: the temples should have clean and peaceful mindful silence and the temples should be a place to study and seek knowledge concerning with religious places of the best traditions, customs of nation for people and on the firstly importance, the communities should participate on conservation of important religious places.