Wat Traimitr Wittayaram hopes to complete construction of the new Phra Maha Mondop which will house the world's largest Buddha statue cast from pure gold in March. Construction began two years ago after the temple found that the room where the statute, weighing 5.5 tons and 3.04 metres tall, was kept had become too small to accommodate visitors, numbering some 2,000 daily, arriving to pay homage to the popular Sukhothai-style image.