Wat Chao Chan, Si Satchanalai Historical Park, Sukhothai

Wat Chao Chan, Si Satchanalai Historical Park, Sukhothai Wat Chao Chan is located west of Wat Phra Si Rattana Maha That Chaliang. The Khmer style prang was built in the reign of King Jayavarman VII (1181-1217 A.D.) as shrine in the Mahayana Buddhism. Built by big laterite blocks and decorated the surface with limestone plaster. At the middle of this shrine, there is an arch at the in front of and three false-doors in others side. The top is a lotus design consisting of row upon row of lotus petals. In Sukhothai period, the temple became a religious place of Theravada Buddhism. They reclaimed the ground around the shrine. Then built an ordination hall on front of the shrine and a Mandapa at the north of this shrine.