# Samre, Bangkok

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Khwaeng in Thailand

Samre สำเหร่ Khwaeng First Presbyterian Church, Samray Location in Thon Buri District Country Thailand Province Bangkok Khet Thon Buri Area [1] • Total 1.230 km2 (0.475 sq mi) Population (2019) • Total 14,937 • Density 12,143.9/km2 (31,453/sq mi) Postal code 10600 TIS 1099 101507

**Samre** ([Thai](/source/Thai_language): สำเหร่, pronounced [\[sǎm.rèː\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Thai)), also spelled **Sam Re** and **Samray**, is a subdistrict (*[khwaeng](/source/Khwaeng)*) of [Thon Buri District](/source/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](/source/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.[2] It was also the name of a Buddhist temple (*[wat](/source/Wat)*) in the area, Wat Samre, believed to have been built around 1717 and now known as Wat Ratchawarin.[3]

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](/source/Sunthorn_Phu).[4]

In the 1850s, a plot of land in the area was purchased by American missionary [Stephen Mattoon](/source/Stephen_Mattoon), and it became the location of the [First Presbyterian Church, Samray](/source/First_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Samray) as well as [Samray Boys' School](/source/Samray_Boys'_School), the country's first formal school.[4]

## Geography

Samre is in the southeastern corner of [Thon Buri District](/source/Thon_Buri_District).

Samre is bounded by other subdistricts (from north clockwise): [Bang Yi Ruea](/source/Bang_Yi_Ruea) in its district (Krung Thonburi Road is a borderline), [Bang Lamphu Lang](/source/Bang_Lamphu_Lang) in [Khlong San District](/source/Khlong_San_District) (Khlong Bang Sai Kai is a borderline), [Wat Phraya Krai](/source/Wat_Phraya_Krai) and Bang Kho Laem in [Bang Kho Laem District](/source/Bang_Kho_Laem_District) with [Dao Khanong](/source/Dao_Khanong_Subdistrict) in its district ([Chao Phraya River](/source/Chao_Phraya_River) and [Mahaisawan Road](/source/Mahaisawan_Road) are the borderlines), [Bukkhalo](/source/Bukkhalo) in its district (Somdet Phra Chao Tak Sin Road is a borderline).[5]

## Places

- First Presbyterian Church, Samray

- Samre Police Station

- Bukkhalo Police Station

- Samre Post Office

- Wat Bang Nam Chon

- [Samitivej Thonburi Hospital](/source/Samitivej_Hospital#Hospitals) (formerly Krungdhon 1 Hospital)

- [Rama III Bridge](/source/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.[5]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Administrative Strategy Division, Strategy and Evaluation Department, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (2021). [สถิติกรุงเทพมหานครประจำปี 2563](https://web.archive.org/web/20220930084153/https://webportal.bangkok.go.th/upload/user/00000130/BMA_STATISTICS%202563/ebook%2063.pdf) [Bangkok Statistics 2020] (PDF) (in Thai). Archived from [the original](https://webportal.bangkok.go.th/upload/user/00000130/BMA_STATISTICS%202563/ebook%2063.pdf) (PDF) on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2021.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Maywisa (2019-09-24). ["โคลงเคลง นักเลงกินโคลงเคลง แล้วไปโคลงเรือ หรือ…โค-ลงเรือ เรือจึงโคลงเคลง"](https://www.technologychaoban.com/flower-and-decorating-plants/article_124722). *Technologychaoban* (in Thai). Retrieved 2021-03-14.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** รสสุคนธ์ อุดมศรี. ["ฐานข้อมูลท้องถิ่นธนบุรี"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200723075558/http://library.bsru.ac.th/arcbs/arcbs_preview.php?category_id=12&content_id=120). *library.bsru.ac.th* (in Thai). Offices of Academic Resources and Information Technology Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University. Archived from [the original](http://library.bsru.ac.th/arcbs/arcbs_preview.php?category_id=12&content_id=120) on 23 July 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2021.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-The_Cloud_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-The_Cloud_4-1) โลจน์ นันทิวัชรินทร์ (2 March 2021). ["คริสตจักรที่หนึ่ง สำเหร่ โบสถ์โปรเตสแตนต์อายุกว่าร้อยปีริมน้ำย่านเจริญนคร: The First American Presbyterian Church"](https://readthecloud.co/first-presbyterian-church-samray/). *The Cloud* (in Thai). Retrieved 18 March 2021.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-nam_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-nam_5-1) ["แขวงบุคคโล เขตธนบุรี กรุงเทพมหานคร"](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) [Bukkhalo Subdistrict, Thon Buri District, Bangkok]. *Ro1.ldd.go.th* (in Thai).

[13°42′34.6″N 100°29′29.44″E / 13.709611°N 100.4915111°E / 13.709611; 100.4915111](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Samre,_Bangkok&params=13_42_34.6_N_100_29_29.44_E_region:TH_type:landmark)

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