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Situated among magnificent scenery southwest of Wat Mahathat is Wat Si Sawai. Three prangs are surrounded by a laterite wall.
Inside the wall, the viharn in the west, built of laterite, is separate from the main prang which was constructed in Lop Buri or Hindu-style but the others, also constructed beside the prangs, are Buddhist viharns.
The Crown Prince (King Rama VI), found a trace of Hindu sculpture Sayomphu, the greatest Hindu God in this sanctuary. In his opinion this ruin was once a Hindu shrine, but was later converted into a Buddhist monastery.
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