Wat Jom Sawan

Wat Jom Sawan is a Burmese temple made of teak wood. The monastery was built in 1894. The teak building, which combines the ordination hall, image hall, and the monk residence, features a multi-tiered roof adorned with fine fretwork. Its interior, the ceiling and the posts, boasts elaborate carved wood inlaid with colourful stained glass. Antiquities found here include Luang Pho San, a bamboo-woven figure primed with black lacquer and its surface covered with gold leaves, an ivory image of Buddha in the Burmese artistic style, scripture slabs made from ground ivory with Burmese scripts, as well as, a pulpit housing a marble Buddha statue. The temple was deserted since the Ngiao rebellion but later restored by the Thai Yai or Shan hill tribe.

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