WAT SI-SA WAI
Situated among magnificent scenery southwest of Wat Mahathat is Wat Si-Sawai. Three prangs are surrounded
by a laterite wall.
Inside the wall, the viharn in the west, built of laterite, is separate from the main prang which was constructed
beside the prangs are Buddhist viharns. The Crown Prince of that time who later become King Rama VI found
a trace of the Hindu sculpture Sayomphu, the greaest Hindu God in this sanctusry, In his opinion, this ruin was
once a Hindu shrine, but was later converted into a Buddhist monastery.
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