A famous Buddhist temple made from recycled beer bottles collapsed under its own weight in Thailand.

Footage shows the ruins of a pagoda at the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as the Temple of a Million Bottles, in Sisaket province on April 24.

The broken structure's pieces were scattered on the ground with only the roof bent into several piece. Fortunately, no one was harmed when the religious building collapsed the day before.

A local says in the video: 'It is a temple located in Amphoe Khun Harn District, Sisaket province. Today I bring you to the area that is currently broken. As for the other areas, the repair construction is still ongoing.'

The Temple of a Million Bottles was built by Buddhist monks entirely from recycled glass bottles and concrete - with more than 1.5 million bottles used in its construction.

The bottles were embedded into concrete, forming an intricate mosaic-like pattern that covered the entire building inside and out.

However, there now appears to have been little thought for engineering in the construction, with the load-bearing capabilities insufficient for the thousands of glass bottles.

The video shows one of the newer pagodas in the complex that has collapsed with another that was made from recycled bottles still standing.

Temple abbot Phra Waiphot Thammaparo said he started the construction of the now-destroyed pagoda, measuring 10 metres in width, 10 metres in length, and 15 metres in height, by himself in November 2023.

However, due to his old age, he hired workers with donations from devotees.

He said: 'The reason that the pagoda collapsed was because two sides contained pillars bearing weight while another side lacked it.

'The pillars are also small due to the small size of metal used in construction because I constructed the pagoda based on the limited donation I received.

'From now on, I have to remove the damaged construction material to create a new one, which will be a place to store the ashes of Luang Pho Lod, my father, who made this temple famous worldwide.

'The construction of the new temple will still use bottles, which was my father's dream.'