Shwedagon Pagoda

Year

1700

Type

building

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The Shwedagon Pagoda is the principal Buddhist stupa of Yangon, a gilded bell-shaped tower rising about 99 m above its platform on Singuttara Hill. Origin tradition links the site to the enshrinement of Buddha relics in deep antiquity, but …

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