Taxi Chiangmai: Patrick mobile- 081 617 2116 (oversea call ++66 81 617 2116)
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Wat Srisuphan
Wat Srisuphan was constructed by Phraya Pilok Pannadatiraj and his mother, Queen Suriyasawasdee. Phraya Pilokpanadatiraj ruled at the end of Lanna’s golden age and is more commonly known as Phraya Muang Gaew. He was also responsible for the construction and restoration of Wat Phra Singh and Wat Rampoeng. The stela now housed in the golden mondop beside the Phra Viharn records that the temple was sanctified on the 30th of March 1500. When the temple was first constructed, the only buildings were the Phra Ubosoth which is the monks’ ordination hall and the Phra Chedi which enshrines sacred objects.Renovation is being carried out at Wat Srisuphan on the Ordination Hall which was built 500 years ago and will be the first silver ordination hall in the world. It is 5 meters wide and 17.5 meters long in the architecture of Lanna. The whole building will be decorated by pure silver, compound silver, and aluminum through the methods of local wisdom of silverware handicraft inherited from ancestor with the intention “to create the art for Lanna region in order to dedicate to Buddhism and the king Rama the 9th”
Taxi Chiangmai: Patrick mobile- 081 617 2116 (oversea call ++66 81 617 2116)
e-mail: neomart@gmail.com
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