PaHto Daw Gyi Pagoda (1790) at Min Kun on the Irrawaddy River near Mandalay in Myanmar (Burma). The large vertical crack in the brick structure.

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This monument, known also as the pile of bricks, was built for King Bodawpaya but he died before it was completed to the apparent relief of those forced to build it.

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