Mingun ( Burmese : မင်းကွန်းမြို့ ; MLCTS : mang: kwan mrui. [mɪ́ɰ̃ɡʊ́ɰ̃ mjo̰] ) is a town in Sagaing Township of Sagaing Region , north-west Myanmar (Burma), located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay . Its main attraction is the ruined Mingun Pahtodawgyi .
3-633: The Pon Daw Pagoda (Burmese: ပုံတော်စေတီ ) is a small pagoda in Mingun , Myanmar . Built in 1799, the temple is a miniature version of the larger, incomplete Mingun Pahtodawgyi , which was abandoned due to cost overruns. The Paw Daw Pagoda resembles what the Pahtodawgyi was intended to look like when it was complete. This article about a building or structure in Myanmar is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mingun The Mingun temple
6-423: Is a monumental uncompleted stupa begun by King Bodawpaya in 1790. It was not completed, due to an astrologer claiming that, once the temple was finished, the king would die. The completed stupa would have been the largest in the world at 150 metres (490 ft). Huge cracks are visible on the structure from the earthquake of 23 March 1839. Like many large pagodas in Myanmar, a pondaw paya or working model of
9-605: The stupa can be seen nearby. King Bodawpaya also had a gigantic bell cast to go with his huge stupa, the Mingun Bell weighing 90 tons, and is today the largest ringing bell in the world. The weight of the bell in Burmese measurement, is 55,555 viss or peiktha (1 viss = 1.63 kg), handed down as a mnemonic " Min Hpyu Hman Hman Pyaw ", with the consonants representing the number 5 in Burmese astronomy and numerology . Just
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