Make a pilgrimage to Wat Ku Kham (Wat Ku Kham Temple | Chiang Mai) Chiang Mai

The construction of Wat Ku Kham can be traced back to 1920, but few definitive records exist. Only pencil markings on the temple's land title deed indicate the founding year, and oral tradition states that the site was originally occupied by the remains of an old pagoda – piles of broken bricks stacked like a pagoda, or a partially destroyed, not very large pagoda.

The name later recorded in the Lanna Dharma scriptures was "Luang Khachat Thanthanikorn." He worked with the villagers to restore the pagoda to its full size. He then invited monks to reside in the temple, and the villagers renamed it "Wat Ku Daeng" after the Chinese who had restored it.

In 1897, it received the royal charter establishing its temple boundaries, thus formally establishing it as a fully-fledged temple. The Ministry of Religious Affairs' registration under the Mahanikaya sect of Buddhism refers to it as "Wat Ku Kam".

Wat Ku Kam, Tambon Wat Ket, Mueang Chiang Mai District, 220 Kaew Nawarat Road, Tambon Wat Ket, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai Province