Wat Muang is home to The Big Buddha, also known as Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin and Mahaminh Sakayamunee Visejchaicharn, which is the tallest Buddha statue in Thailand and the ninth tallest in the world.
In 1991, the abbot Kasem had began to build the biggest sitting buddha but so sad, he died before the statue was finished in 2001 at 54 years old.