The importance of this temple It is not only a beautiful temple located in the heart of Chiang Rai. If it is still a temple where the navel or the city pillar of Chiang Rai is built within the temple area as well, formerly known as Chan Ta Lok Temple or Wat Chan Lok Built in the year 1975, the reason for this name is because there are naturally large red sandalwood trees within the temple grounds. And this red sandalwood tree is a sacred tree according to ancient traditions. But as time passes This tree was cut down. In addition, at the time of building the city of Chiang Rai the second time in the year 2417, there was a survey from 4 corners of the city and found that the center of Chiang Rai was at Wat Chan Ta Lok. Therefore, the name has been changed to Wat Klang Wiang since then. As for the city pillar that was originally built and toppled due to lack of strength, in the year 1992, Provost Sasanakit Kosol Abbot and faculty who have faith together to create a new city pillar instead of the original one and located at the original location by building a pumpkin-shaped mondop to cover the spire in honor of Her Majesty the Queen the queen On the occasion of his 5th anniversary on August 12, 1992 and still standing until now Around the mondop, there are statues of Thao Chatulokban. Serves to protect the navel of Wiang according to Lanna beliefs As for the area where the red sandalwood tree used to be, a pagoda was built over it. Surrounding the base of this pagoda are lined with elephants in costume. and has built a new ubosot in the style of applied Lanna art with contemporary beauty For more information, call 0 5376 8187.