Considered to be another Thai temple located in Bangkok's Chinatown apart from the notable Wat Traimit, where the largest gold Buddha statue in the world is housed.

Its history goes back at least 200 years, from the reign of King Buddha Yodfa Chulalok (Rama I), coinciding with the establishment of Rattanakosin kingdom (now Bangkok) as the new capital of Siam (Thailand in those days) in 1782.

At that time the location of the temple called Sampheng, and became the residence of Chinese immigrants after they shifted from Tha Tian quarter.

In the reign of King Mongkut (Rama IV), Phra Bang was sent back to Luang Phrabang in Kingdom of Luang Phrabang (now Laos) until the present, and Phra Nak was brought from Buddhist shrine inside the Grand Palace to replace the statue.

[3] In the contemporary era with World War II, in the Chao Phraya river near the temple there was a large crocodile went on a rampage as a man-eater.