မင်းကွန်းပုထိုးတော်ကြီး

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.

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 (there's a gate about halfway through the stairs to the top) due to some incidents in the past. There isn't much in the interior to see.

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.

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!

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. Don't miss crossing the street to check out two giant lion brick sculptures.

So wonderful! This place is like nothing we've 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.

The unfinished temple was a spectacular sight that I am glad I got to witness. No need to go inside as there isn't 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.

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 ၄၉၀) တွင်ရှိသည်။ ၁၈၃၉ ခုနှစ်မတ်လ ၂၃ ရက်ငလျင်လှုပ်ခတ်မှုနှင့်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံတွင်ကြီးမားသောအက်ကြောင်းများကိုတွေ့မြင်နိုင်သည်။ မြန်မာပြည်ရှိဘုရားသုံးဆူများကဲ့သို့ပင်အနီးအနားရှိရေကန်ပုဏ္ဏားသို့မဟုတ်စတူဒီယို၏အလုပ်လုပ်ပုံကိုတွေ့နိုင်သည်။

King Bodawpaya သည်အလွန်ကြီးမားသော stupa ဖြစ်သည့် Mingun Bell နှင့်အတူသွားရန်အလွန်ကြီးမားသောခေါင်းလောင်းသွန်းလောင်းထားပြီးယနေ့တွင်ကမ္ဘာပေါ်တွင်အကြီးဆုံးမြည်သံဖြစ်သည်။ မြန်မာတိုင်းတာမှုအတွက်ခေါင်းလောင်း၏အလေးချိန်မှာ ၅၅၅၅၅ viss သို့မဟုတ် peiktha (၁ viss = ၁.၆၃ ကီလိုဂရမ်) ဖြစ်ပြီးအနုပညာ "Min Hpyu Hman Hman Pyaw" ဟုခေါ်ပြီးမြန်မာနက္ခတ္တဗေဒနှင့် numerology တွင်နံပါတ် ၅ ကိုကိုယ်စားပြုသည်။

This unfinished stupa is over 200 years old. It's lucky that our traditional conservative Buddhists didn't try to finish but leave it mostly as it was before. (Unlike those pagodas in Bagan). This is incredible for history lovers.

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.

Amazing place, never saw a place like that before.
It’s stunning, like from an other world.

It is historic landmark of upper Myanmar with strong background history. Very attractive tourist destination where you must visit during your stay in Myanmar.

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

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

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.

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.

The Mingun Pahtodawgyi is an incomplete monument stupa in Mingun, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northwest 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 temple so amazing and very beautiful. You have to take your shoes off and barefoot so it's kinda hot for your foot

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...

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