Location: 95 Moo4, Ban Pratu Pha, Amphur Muang, Lamphun
Occupant: Wat Pratu Pha
Year established: 1894
Wat Pratu Pha (Pha Mamuang Chum Huang Wiang Lha Poon) is a temple of the Maha Nikaya sect. It was established in 1758 by nobles of the city f Nakhon Haripunchai (today in Lumphun province). People from Muang Yong in the village of Pratu Pha migrated to Pak Lum Muang Daeng in the town of Wiang Lha Poon. They built the temple and asked Phra Kruba Lhek to be the abbot. The villagers cooperated in planting hundreds of mango trees around the temple (as a food supply) and to remind them of the first move to a new location. They named the temple after their original temple, but when the mango trees grew they renamed it “Pratu Pha”, “Pha Muang Chum Huang Wiang Lha Poon”, or “ Pha Ma Muang Luang”.
The Scripture or Dharma Hall of Wat Pratu Pha was built in 1894 in the period of the fourth abbot, Kruba Ariya. The hall was built by the skilled Yong people. It is a teak wood building with a high raised basement, and a path to walk around the chamber upstairs. This hall has only one entrance door. The door and walls were painted in peacocks or devas. The wooden eave brackets and tympanum have animal, flower and plant details carved into them together with the “Ang Wah” mirror decoration. Clay tiles were installed on the roof, and the ridge of the roof is made from zinc. Inside the hall, the platform is raised. The Dharma scriptures are kept inside the hall and are made from plam leaves with the written texts of sermons inscribed in Lanna characters. Each Dharma box has a different decoration, for example, the floral lacquer and gilding, or the plaster casting with the glass decoration. Some of them are decorated with images of elephants, horses and bees.
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