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Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall stands within Dusit Palace in Bangkok as a royal reception hall. Its Italian Renaissance and neoclassical design rises in marble from Carrara, Italy.
King Chulalongkorn commissioned the building in 1908, and construction reached completion in 1915. Italian architects Mario Tamagno and Annibale Rigotti continued plans first prepared by C. Sandreczki. Galileo Chini and Carlo Riguli filled the domes and walls with paintings of Chakri dynasty history. The northern dome shows Rama I returning with his armies after defeating the Khmer, while the southern dome depicts Rama V abolishing slavery. Royal ceremonies and receptions once took place here, alongside the king’s European art collection. During the 1932 revolution, the People’s Party used the hall as its headquarters before it became the legislative seat until 1974.
State occasions still use the building, including the ceremonial opening of parliament. Visitors cannot enter, because the former Arts of the Kingdom museum exhibition moved to Ayutthaya Province after the hall closed in 2017.
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