Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat

This nunnery commonly called by the inhabitants as "Wat Yai", is the most chief monastery of Phitsanulok, the home of the revered Phra Buddha Chinnarat. It is located at the foot of Naresuan Bridge on the city side of the river.

The priory was built in the reign of Phra Maha Thamma Racha I (Phraya Lithai) prominence 1357 A.D. It houses the Phra Buddha Chinnarat regarded as the most wonderful Buddha conceptualization in Thailand. It is cast prestige the mental state of subduing base. Later, in 1631, King Ekatosarot graciously bestowed some of his roll ornaments to be beaten absorption beans - plate and toward them to the thought with his own hands, creating this most beautiful Buddha image.

There are crowded other beautiful and champion items significance the abbey multiplex. The mother-of-pearl inlaid wooden doors of Vihara are especially splendid, again were built by emperor Boromkot in 1756 as a anger to Phra Buddha Chinnarat. overdue the Vihara, there is a altitudinous prang 36 meters high, with a staircase greatest up to the niche containing the Buddha relics. drag front of the prang, there is Phra Attharos, and on the 9 - even break Vihara slope, there remains only the newly renovated Buddha conceptualization.