The teak forest monastery is architecturally and artistically the most important in the area, and is located just outside the walls, 200 metres to the right once you have left the Ching Saen gate from the museum, still surrounded by teak trees, of which 300 were originally planted around the walls, it is generally believed to have been founded in 1319, but there are doubts about the date. The Ching Saen chronicle records that it was 1295, but this would put it well before the founding of the city according to the chiang mai chronicles.