Wat Ket Karam
Riverside Lanna temple with a five-tiered viharn roof and a community museum of vintage photographs and antiques.
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This guide to Wat Ket Karam in Chiang Mai opens with the community museum tucked behind the temple, built in the old quarters of an abbot named Chai Sri Wimon after his death, with help from teak merchant heir Jack Bain. It traces the fifteenth-century temple back to King Sam Fang Kaen and the riverside quarter of Chinese and British teak merchants that grew up around it, and the earthquake said to have cracked its chedi. Look for the attic-emptied relics neighbors donated to the museum shelves as you walk through.
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