Samre, Bangkok

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'''Samre''' ({{langx|th|สำเหร่}}, {{IPA|th|sǎm.rèː|pron}}), also spelled '''Sam Re''' and '''Samray''', is a subdistrict (''[[khwaeng]]'') of [[Thon Buri District]], Bangkok, Thailand. It is also the name of a neighbourhood around the area.

==History== The word ''samre'' is a name for the plant ''[[Malabar melastome]]'' (also known as ''khlongkhleng''), which probably used to grow in abundance in the area, leading the neighbourhood to be known by the name.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.technologychaoban.com/flower-and-decorating-plants/article_124722|language=Thai|title=โคลงเคลง นักเลงกินโคลงเคลง แล้วไปโคลงเรือ หรือ…โค-ลงเรือ เรือจึงโคลงเคลง |work=Technologychaoban|date=2019-09-24|author=Maywisa|accessdate=2021-03-14}}</ref> It was also the name of a Buddhist temple (''[[wat]]'') in the area, Wat Samre, believed to have been built around 1717 and now known as Wat Ratchawarin.<ref>{{cite web |author1=รสสุคนธ์ อุดมศรี |title=ฐานข้อมูลท้องถิ่นธนบุรี |url=http://library.bsru.ac.th/arcbs/arcbs_preview.php?category_id=12&content_id=120 |website=library.bsru.ac.th |publisher=Offices of Academic Resources and Information Technology Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University |access-date=18 March 2021 |language=th |archive-date=23 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723075558/http://library.bsru.ac.th/arcbs/arcbs_preview.php?category_id=12&content_id=120 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Samre used to be a site of public executions during the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries, where prisoners were beheaded and their heads set on spikes by the riverside. It was a place locals feared to be heavily haunted, and is described as such in ''Nirat Thalang'', a travel poem written c. 1815–1816 by Muen Phromsomphatson, a student of [[Sunthorn Phu]].<ref name="The Cloud" />

In the 1850s, a plot of land in the area was purchased by American missionary [[Stephen Mattoon]], and it became the location of the [[First Presbyterian Church, Samray]] as well as [[Samray Boys' School]], the country's first formal school.<ref name="The Cloud">{{cite web |author1=โลจน์ นันทิวัชรินทร์ |title=คริสตจักรที่หนึ่ง สำเหร่ โบสถ์โปรเตสแตนต์อายุกว่าร้อยปีริมน้ำย่านเจริญนคร: The First American Presbyterian Church |url=https://readthecloud.co/first-presbyterian-church-samray/ |website=The Cloud |access-date=18 March 2021 |language=th |date=2 March 2021}}</ref>

==Geography== Samre is in the southeastern corner of [[Thon Buri District]].

Samre is bounded by other subdistricts (from north clockwise): [[Bang Yi Ruea]] in its district (Krung Thonburi Road is a borderline), [[Bang Lamphu Lang]] in [[Khlong San District]] (Khlong Bang Sai Kai is a borderline), [[Wat Phraya Krai]] and Bang Kho Laem in [[Bang Kho Laem District]] with [[Dao Khanong Subdistrict|Dao Khanong]] in its district ([[Chao Phraya River]] and [[Mahaisawan Road]] are the borderlines), [[Bukkhalo]] in its district (Somdet Phra Chao Tak Sin Road is a borderline).<ref name=nam>{{cite web|url=http://r01.ldd.go.th/dinthai/%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%2053/MAIN/BK/BK__2805.html|work=Ro1.ldd.go.th|language=Thai|title=แขวงบุคคโล เขตธนบุรี กรุงเทพมหานคร|trans-title=Bukkhalo Subdistrict, Thon Buri District, Bangkok}}</ref>

==Places== *First Presbyterian Church, Samray *Samre Police Station *Bukkhalo Police Station *Samre Post Office *Wat Bang Nam Chon *[[Samitivej Hospital#Hospitals|Samitivej Thonburi Hospital]] (formerly Krungdhon 1 Hospital) *[[Rama III Bridge]] (New Krungthep Bridge, Krungthep 2 Bridge)

The local temple Wat Samre, or Wat Ratchawarin, indeed, it is located in the area of neighbouring Bukkhalo.<ref name=nam/>

==References==

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[[Category:Neighbourhoods of Bangkok]] [[Category:Subdistricts of Bangkok]] [[Category:Thon Buri district]]