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Wat Boromniwas (Wat Borom) is near the Bo Bae Market. It was called originally Wat Nok. King Rama IV ordered the construction of this temple while he was still a monk. It was intended to be a forest temple (Aranyawasi) companion to Wat Bowornniwet Vihara, which was intended to be the community temple (Khamawasi). King Rama V ordered the temple to be renovated and renamed it Wat Boromniwas.
In earlier times, people went to temple by river. It was not until in the reign of King Rama IV that the road to the temple was built when the temple was renovated. The two brass-made principle Buddha images in the ubosot (ordination hall) are enshrined from Phitsanulok Province. One of the Buddha images sits in "Subduing Mara" posture (Thai: ปางมารวิชัย, "Pang Man Wichai"), and the other Buddha image has the name "Phra Nirantrai" (Thai: พระนิรันตราย) and is in "Pang Samathi Phet" posture (Thai: ปางขัดสมาธิเพชร), in which Buddha is sitting cross-legged on a jewelled pedestal.
"Subduing Mara" posture
Phra Nirantrai, in "Pang Samathi Phet" posture
vice abbot: Luang Phi Kitti
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Phra Ubalikunupmachan Chan Sirichantho (Thai: พระอุบาลีคุณูปมาจารย์ (จันทร์ สิริจันโท)) was the former abbot of Wat Boromniwas, and the initiator of the making of Phra Setthi Nawakot (9-Faced Buddha) in Thailand.
Phra Ubalikunupmachan was the teacher of the guru monk Luang Pu Mun and had served as the abbot in Wat Ammattayaram. When staying in Laos for the duty of the administration of Sangha (Buddhist monastic community), Phra Ubalikunupmachan got a manual about the making of Phra Setthi Nawakot from Yathan Samret Lun, the abbot of a Lao temple Wat Banwensai. Phra Ubalikunupmachan learned the making and consecrating process of Phra Setthi Nawakot from the manual.
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