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Modern · Buddhist · Myanmar
Setkyathiha Pagoda
Mandalay, Mandalay Region · 21.9768°, 96.0750°
Gautama Buddha (bronze image cast for King Bagyidaw)KonbaungPagoda
Sacred since
1884 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1884
Konbaung
History & significance
A pagoda south of Zegyo market on the east bank of the Shwetachaung canal in Mandalay, completed in 1884 to house a large bronze Buddha cast at Inwa for King Bagyidaw before 1824. The image was moved to Amarapura in 1852 at the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Burmese War and on to Mandalay in 1885 with the Third.