Community Responses to Cultural Identity of the Three Religious Communities: A Case Study in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand

The research work focused on the community response in relation to their architecture, space and land of the 3 ethnic enclaves of 3 different religions: Buddhism, Confucianism and Catholicism located along the Bang Pakong River, namely, Ban Sothorn, Talad Banmai and St. Paul Church. The objectives of the study are 1) to study the value of their cultural heritage and 2) to study the sustainability of their community. The study reveals that the conservation of an ethnic community depends on people's relationship with their religion, housing security, economic potential and people's involvement. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B. V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies(cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia