The Grand Palace was established in 1782, when King Rama I moved the capital from Thonburi to Bangkok. It is surrounded by four walls, 1900m in length. The Wat Phra Kaeo, or Temple Of The Emerald Buddha, was built inside The Grand Palace walls in 1785 by Rama I as a royal chapel. There are three monuments just as you enter Wat Phra Kaeo, a reliquary in the shape of a golden chedi, the Mondop, modeled on Ankor Wat a repository for Buddhist sacred scriptures inscribe on palm, and the Royal Pantheon in which statues of past kings of the Chakri dynasty are enshrined.