The church traces its history back to 1867 when
Daniel McGilvary, an American
Presbyterian missionary, arrived in Chiang Mai and founded the
Laos Mission, the first Protestant mission to be established in Northern Siam. The following year, a piece of land was given to McGilvary by
Kawilorot Suriyawong, the ruler of Chiang Mai, on the east bank of the Ping River where McGilvary built a temporary mission dwelling with a thatched roof which he used for Sunday worship. Later, this was replaced by larger house which held 200 worshippers, but as the congregation grew he was forced to hold services at the adjacent, unfinished girls' mission school, which later became the
Dara Academy. == References ==