BANGKOK (NNT) - Iconsiam shopping mall in Bangkok is holding a traditional Songkran celebration where shoppers can bathe statues of lord Buddha for good fortune, while many people also pray for the pandemic to pass.

 

Iconsiam shopping mall is holding an event called The Iconic Songkran Festival 2021 which focuses on traditional celebration of the Thai New Year. This year, the shopping mall installed a Sarira relic brought from Wat Yannawa, as well as Buddha statues from famous temples in different regions of Thailand, so that customers can pay their respects.

 

A shopper participating in the event said she couldn’t make it back to her hometown of Lampang this year, so instead brought her niece to participate in this traditional Thai New Year celebration for good fortune, and to feel immersed in Thai culture.

 

Similarly, other shoppers said they couldn’t go back to their hometown this year due to the fresh surge of COVID-19 cases that forced them to cancel their travel plans and connect to their family online instead.

 

They said today is their first day of going out, and that they came here to pray for Thai people to get through this pandemic together.

 

Iconsiam’s The Iconic Songkran Festival 2021 event is open everyday until 18th April at Iconsiam shopping center in Charoen Nakhon district of Bangkok. Donations made at this event will be given to the temples from which the iconic statues of the lord Buddha have been brought.

 

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in the middle of the wave the mall belonging to the richest family try to spin more money on misery of shoppers, throwing in religious delusions.

instead of travelling to home towns they congregate at the temple to commercialism, as if they did not have their local temple within 5 minutes walk 

Gathering in numbers to pray getting through a communicable disease seems to me to be the same as gathering in great numbers on the cliff edges to pray for people not to fall off whilst standing on one leg.

That's the way. create an event to bring people in numbers closer together

Close the Shopping Centres we can survive without them for 3 weeks,,,,,, who owns them?

Oh sorry,,,,,,I guess they stay open then