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Mingun
Mingun ( (:mɪ́ɴɡʊ́ɴ mjo̰)) is a town in Sagaing Region, northwest Myanmar (Burma), located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay. Its main attraction is the ruined Mingun Pahtodawgyi. ==Mingun Pahtodawgyi== (詳細はBodawpaya in 1790. It was not completed, due to an astrologer claiming that, once the temple was finished, the king would die. The completed stupa would have been the largest in the world at . Huge cracks are visible on the structure from the earthquake of 23 March 1839.〔(Burma:Preservation and restoration of national monuments and artifacts at selected sites ), pages 5 and 9, UNESCO, Paris, 1984.〕 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.
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