Pha That Luang
Also known as That Luang
1566
Vernacular
temple
Pha That Luang is the gilded Buddhist stupa that King Setthathirath sponsored in 1566 at Vientiane after moving the Lao capital downriver to the Mekong plain. The central reliquary tower rises about 45 meters above a stepped base and…
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- 1800-1899
The monument was damaged during nineteenth-century regional conflicts and later partially restored.
- 1900-1999
Twentieth-century restoration re-established the gilded national-monument profile visible today.
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