Mingun Pahtodawgyi in Sagaing

Historical and Religious Place.And also incomplete Pagoda.One of the famous religious place and tour attraction area of Myanmar.Local kids are smart in Photo taking. Their skill is amazing.

Huge ancient pagoda in Saggaing area. Even though not finish build easy to imagine how big is it. Most of young people try to climb up on top this Pagoda.

The biggest pile of bricks in world.Easy to visit by boat.Very, very impressive

I visited this amazing monument on 11-12-2019. Its a broken dream. Its wonderful as it stands now itself. We can imagine how astonishing it would be, had it been completed. There should be trained guides in such places. Government should give attention to this point.Not only this unfinished, broken pagoda, the bell mounted at another spot near this, is also striking.

The unfinished stupa was located at Mingun village along the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy river.Built by King Bodaw Paya, the King of Amarapura in 1790 and one of the four major projrect. It was nominated measurements were 150m in height and 137m in width but 50m was finished. It was severely damaged by earthquake in 1839. Now a day It was recognized as a tourist site in Mingun.

It needs 10 mins and it’s right on the road, somehow really crowded, but the external view is worth a stop! Mammoth structure, leaves in awe and if you climb the top, the view of the sandy river beaches is beautiful! No tickets required here, just take off your shoes and climb up.

The unfinished temple was a spectacular sight that I am glad I got to witness. No need to go inside as there isnt much there except a small monument. Instead take the time to walk around the outside and escape the bulk of the tourists. Make sure you are in temple clothes to be considerate. We really enjoyed this temple due to its sheer size and beauty.

Large structure with stalls along the pagoda. Right opposite, you can find Giant Lions sightseeing.

A big pagoda at the archeological sites of Mandalay. It is nearby to Hsinbyume pagoda, and the ticket is inclusive of this pagoda. So make a quick stop here. Opposite of this is the two tigers sculpture.Instagram: theroytravels

So wonderful! This place is like nothing weve ever seen before, not really much to see inside, but the the deep cracks caused by earthquakes make it so unique and beautiful. Do find the time to walk all around it. We were alone for the most part, especially round the back.

An impressive sight and site, Pahtodawgyi distinguishes itself from the rest of Myanmar pagodas by the sheer size of its never finished building. Hailed by some as the largest pile of bricks in the world, this 18th century structure was damaged during an earthquake that took place a few years after the project was abandoned. Go around the building and check out the huge cracks that were caused by the earthquake. They are a testament to its solid construction. Other buildings would have most likely collapsed. Definitely worth the trip from Mandalay. Dont miss crossing the street to check out two giant lion brick sculptures.

Beautiful white Pagoda surrounded by small pagodas

Get there early as it gets hot. Be aware of uneven ground and dont climb if you are afraid of heights.

90 tonnes made this bell at times the largest bell in the world.When you are in the area to visit the unfinished pagoda then stop by!

Once in a lifetime experience. A must visit. Had it not damaged in the earthquake work was stopped, it would have been one of the 8th wonders of the world. Now famous as the largest pile of brick rubble in one area in the world.

Must visit once in a lifetime 😌 donot expecting to much for the surrounding cleanliness.. we have to walk bare foot and make a tour until back side of this un-completed temple but then stray dog keep following us 😭 we just a bit afraid that dog start barking, 🙇🏻‍♀️ the dog poop everywhere luckily its a dry season cannot imagine if in rainy day 😢

This temple so amazing and very beautiful. You have to take your shoes off and barefoot so its kinda hot for your foot

One of the must visit pagoda in Mingun. The place was extraordinary and filled with historical events. Came over here during their full moon festival and it was really packed with locals. Before entering the pagoda you gotta take off your shoes and it can be really challenging to walk on the stone pavement when the sun is hot. It is worth visiting but nothing much you can do except taking photos.

Beautiful piece of history, not alot of people on a Tuesday. However theres not much to do except take pictures.

So large! Stunning

The Mingun temple is a monumental uncompleted stupa began by King Bodawpaya in 1790. It was not completed, due to an astrologer claiming that, once the temple was finished, the king would die.[1] 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.[2] Like many large pagodas in Myanmar, a pondaw paya or working model of 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.မင်းကွန်းသည် ၁၇၉၀ ပြည့်နှစ်ကဘုရင်ဘိုဒါပါရာမှစတင်ခဲ့သောupaရာမပြည့်စုံသည့်ရုပ်ပွားတော်ဖြစ်သည်။ နက္ခတ်ဗေဒင်ဆရာတစ် ဦး ကဝတ်ပြုရာအိမ်တော်ဆောက်လုပ်ပြီးသည်နှင့်ဘုရင်သေမည်ဟုပြောကြားခဲ့သည်။ ပြီးစီးခဲ့သောစေတီပုထိုးသည်ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးဆုံးမီတာ ၁၅၀ (ပေ ၄၉၀တွင်ရှိသည်။ ၁၈၃၉ ခုနှစ်မတ်လ ၂၃ ရက်ငလျင်လှုပ်ခတ်မှုနှင့်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံတွင်ကြီးမားသောအက်ကြောင်းများကိုတွေ့မြင်နိုင်သည်။ မြန်မာပြည်ရှိဘုရားသုံးဆူများကဲ့သို့ပင်အနီးအနားရှိရေကန်ပုဏ္ဏားသို့မဟုတ်စတူဒီယို၏အလုပ်လုပ်ပုံကိုတွေ့နိုင်သည်။King Bodawpaya သည်အလွန်ကြီးမားသော stupa ဖြစ်သည့် Mingun Bell နှင့်အတူသွားရန်အလွန်ကြီးမားသောခေါင်းလောင်းသွန်းလောင်းထားပြီးယနေ့တွင်ကမ္ဘာပေါ်တွင်အကြီးဆုံးမြည်သံဖြစ်သည်။ မြန်မာတိုင်းတာမှုအတွက်ခေါင်းလောင်း၏အလေးချိန်မှာ ၅၅၅၅၅ viss သို့မဟုတ် peiktha (၁ viss = ၁.၆၃ ကီလိုဂရမ်ဖြစ်ပြီးအနုပညာ "Min Hpyu Hman Hman Pyaw" ဟုခေါ်ပြီးမြန်မာနက္ခတ္တဗေဒနှင့် numerology တွင်နံပါတ် ၅ ကိုကိုယ်စားပြုသည်။

Very beautiful and peace historical warship place.

Quite a massive temple and looks domineering from afar.

Beautiful unfinished temple. It is 1/3 of the height originally planned. Has earthquake marks that make it mesmerizing. It is not possible to go up or inside it. There is only a small worship place inside.

1hr distance from mandalay. U can get tricycle or waterbus.This is the biggest temple of minkun. Heir price for tricycle is 30000 kyats from mandalay.

Mingun Pahtodawgyi is an uncompleted one in Mingun of Sagaing Region. The pagoda was built under construction of King Bodawphaya. And many Arakanese were also taken from Arakan to work in the construction of the pagoda.

Very good for visit outside mandalay.Mingum city.

The biggest pile of bricks you will ever see. One would expect it to be so massive inside, but it is not... There are only few tiny rooms inside. Too bad that the massive lion statues did not survive...

Nice place to visit and should be combined with a visit to other sites in Mingun. In the past, it was possible to climb on top but they have now stopped it (theres a gate about halfway through the stairs to the topdue to some incidents in the past. There isnt much in the interior to see.

Very nice place, worth the visit.Pros:Easy to walk by, great pictures, it is next to the lion statues which look impressive (although they lack their heads)We saw an impressive blue lizzard here, beautifulThere are nice crafts shops aroundCons:Very exposed to sun, so very hot.People chase you trying to get money out of you.You cant enter, there is only one of the four doors that is still being used (not destroyedbut it only contains a small Buddha.

Awesome sight to behold! Such an enormous and impressive temple structure, shame it was unfinished. Excellent temple ruins that’s well worth the hour boat ride from Mandalay. The scale is hard to understand until you stand right next to it! Top sight.

Absolutely stunning! Visit during the late afternoon and take a walk around the whole thing.

There is not much of an temple inside...I found it very touristy with not many people here to pray.Much of a stop over only for a picture...

Mingun is one of the many attractions in and around Mandalay. The best way to get there is a boat trip from Mandalay. In the same location you can also see one of the largest bells in the world.

A good tourist attraction to visit

This massive structure is really worth a visit. Actually there are quite lots of things to see in Min Kun Area. We spent the morning visiting Sat Taw Yar Pagoda, Min Kun Pahtodawgyi, Mya Thein Tan Pagoda and Min Kun Bell. Min Kun Pahtodawgyi itself is an amazing architecture with a mysterious story behind. It was the 18th century when it was built, there was a prophecy that if the construction had completed the whole country would have collapsed. That is why the structure was intentionally left unfinished. There is a staircase on the right side of the site that visitors can claim up. Although, the gate on the top is locked, some breathtaking views are there to enjoy!

Beautiful and powerful, the earthquake made cracks only add to it. The stairs on the right side only lead to a locked gate, guess in the past it was allowed to go to the top.Recommend you to go to the back side of the place as it has almost no people and offers much more peace and beauty and much easier to take a good picture without too many people in it.

Half day here and everything is beautiful. Be care about ladies try to sell you postcards and fans..they may grab your shoes and look after it and welcome you back with a big snile and offer stuffs they r selling

Famous incomplete pagoda in mingun. It is impressive because of its sheer size. If completed, It would have been the largest pagoda in Myanmar at 500ft high. However it currently holds the record for being the largest pile of bricks in the world and is famous for the large cracks it developed in the March 1839 earthquake.

It is one of the historical place in Sagaing Devision.

Definitely worth visiting. I initially had reservations but once you are there, the structure is stunning, absolutely massive!

Interesting unfinished architecture . Huge building

Nice unfinished and abandoned monastery almost in ruins.

The stairs to the top are closed. Only a small chamber inside the main building. Ridiculous that they charge to go inside this. Maybe the ticket worth to buy and to visit other places.

The Mingun Pahtodawgyi is an incomplete monument stupa in Mingun, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 minorthwest of Mandalay in Sagaing Region in central Myanmar (formerly Burma). The ruins are the remains of a massive construction project begun by King Bodawpaya in 1790 which was intentionally left unfinished. The pahtodawgyi is seen as the physical manifestations of the well known eccentricities of Bodawpaya. He set up an observation post on an island off Mingun to personally supervise the construction of the temple.

This is an unfinished temple that was supposed to be massive, but then a premonition warned that if finished it would bring bad luck so they stopped building it. Now it is a big pile of bricks - a beautiful one, nevertheless. You can climb the steps on the right but wont be allowed past the gate. A bit frustrating.

This unfinished stupa is over 200 years old. Its lucky that our traditional conservative Buddhists didnt try to finish but leave it mostly as it was before. (Unlike those pagodas in Bagan). This is incredible for history lovers.

Impressive brick temple. Its huge and looks like a mountain from far.

With the idea of being the world’s largest Pagoda, construction was stopped mid way as a priest told the king that he would die once the Pagoda was completed. Post that, the bell (Min Kun Bellwas left abandoned. The bell is now placed nearby from the stupa.

The Pahtodawgyi Pagoda is an incomplete monument stupa in Mingun, just north of Mandalay in central Myanmar (Burma). The ruins are the remains of a massive construction project begun in 1790 by King Bodawpaya, using thousands of prisoners of war and slaves. By the time the construction project was abandoned, the pagoda had attained a height of 50 meters, one third of the intended height, then an earthquake in 1839 caused huge cracks to appear on the face of the structure, which can still be seen. [Wikipedia]