Wat Maha That, Ayutthaya Historical Park, Ayutthaya

Wat Maha That, Ayutthaya Historical Park, Ayutthaya Wat Maha That was built by either King Ramesuan or King Borom Racha Thirat I to enshrine the Buddha ‘s relics. The Main Prang is regarded as the earliest example of the Ayutthaya and has marked traits of the Khmer style. The prang tower is laterite in the lower part with bricks and mortar in the top part. In 1956 A.D. The Fine Arts Department conducted an excavation at Wat Maha That, it found a number of antiquities and the Buddha’s relics in the prang crypt. The Buddha relics were kept within seven miniature stupas, one inside the other, with the outermost in the shape of a stone urn with a lid.