Wat Muen Kong Pagoda

Terrain

General condition

Wat Muen Kong Chedi is currently located inside the Yupparaj Wittayalai School. The entrance gate of the school Inside the ancient city of Chiang Mai in the northeastern area of ​​the city It is about 500 meters west of the eastern moat, 500 meters south of the north moat.

Height above mean sea level

Waterway

Ping River

Geological conditions

Geological conditions in the Chiang Mai Basin are very diverse, from complex igneous rocks, volcanic rocks, metamorphic rocks and sedimentary rocks of various ages over 600 million years, to the unsolved sandstone sediments on the central plains of the Recent Basin that are approximately 10,000-20,000 years ago, which included most of the plains that were now farms and dwellings (Saraswati Ongsakul 2000 :2-3)

Archaeological Era

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Archaeological age

Types of archaeological sites

archaeological essence

There is no evidence that Wat Muen Kong was built when. But it is assumed that it was built in the reign of Phraya Tilokraj in 1985 as a temple that depends on Wat Umong. which appears in the document as follows:

1. 1897… “Wat Muen Kong is located in Dao Klang Wiang, Chiang Mai. Rector named Siwichai is a Chiang Mai sect not yet supervising Vice Chancellor's name is Thusupha. The number of monks at Wat Phansa has 2, 2 before the Buddhist Lent. There are 4 novices, up to Wat Ong Mong. (Tunnel in the city)” (List of ancient temples and sects:4)

2. Muen Khong Temple Built in the Phayat Lokkarat period, around 1985 (history sign of Wat Muen Kong) (abandoned temple in Wiang Chiang Mai) (The Fine Arts Department 2016)

Architectural features of Wat Muen Kong Pagoda is a bell-shaped chedi in Burmese style. Consists of a set of lotus balls, glass balls, lifted chicken breasts, stacked in three layers. Receive the relic which is a three-tiered octagonal garland set. The belly of the board is decorated with lotuses, glass beads, chicken breasts, and bells, and why is there no throne? Lotus base and glass beads and garland set Found traces of lotus-shaped stucco decorations. which was originally supposed to be decorated on every floor The bell is decorated with lotus petals around. because the pagoda is a Burmese style art Therefore, it should have been built since the Burmese Lanna rule. is since the 22nd Buddhist century down.

As for the layout of the pagodas and temples, it is not yet known for certain. Because some Burmese temples in Chiang Mai were built to face the west, such as Wat Pa Pao, etc., however, this chedi was positioned in the east-west direction (Thanathorn Liamwanich 2010 :83 - 84).