Mingun Pagoda, the biggest brick pile of the world, is a massive unfinished pagoda in Mingun, West bank of the Irrawaddy river, about 10 kilometers northwest of Mandalay. It was built at the end of the 18th century and meant to be the largest pagoda in the country, project begun by King Bodawpaya in 1790 which was intentionally left unfinished. The height of the Mingun pagoda is about 50 miters, one third of the intended height, construction was halted. An earthquake on 23 March 1839 caused huge cracks to appear
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