Shwebon Yadana Mingala Palace

Shwebon Yadana Mingala Palace (Burmese: ရွှေဘုံရတနာ မင်္ဂလာနန်းတော်) is a royal palace in Shwebo, Myanmar. The palace was originally built in 1753 AD by King Alaungphaya U Aung Zeya, who was the first founder of the Konbaung dynasty[1] and was capital city until 1760 when the capital was moved to nearby Sagain. Different to other Royal Palaces in Myanmar it was centered on a large graduated pavilion.[2] Having two walls, the outer wall forms a 3.5 km square closure, surrounded by a moat. With the tomb of King Alaungpaya located to the southeast of the palace building.[3] It was reconstructed in 1999[4] based on a mid 19th-century manuscript on a November 1853 expedition to collect the remaining timber posts of the palace, carve them out, and turn them into sacred images..[2] It has 200m long city walls.

References

  1. ^ "Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  2. ^ a b Tainturier, François (2014). "Of Golden Palaces and Celebrated Rulers: Inventing Traditions in Pre-colonial and Contemporary Myanmar". Journal of Burma Studies. 18 (2): 223–258. doi:10.1353/jbs.2014.0015. ISSN 2010-314X.
  3. ^ Yamada, Koji (2021). "A Research on the Applicability of the Mandalay Model to Other Historical Capital Cities of the Burmese Kingdom". Journal of JSCE. 9 (1): 184–197. doi:10.2208/journalofjsce.9.1_184.
  4. ^ "Ministry of Culture". Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2012-02-19.


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