Mingun has 3 important monuments. The largest working bell in the world which weighs 87 tons. The Mantara Gyi Pagoda sometimes described as the largest pile of bricks in the world. And finally the unusual white Hsinbyume Pagoda which architecture is founded in the Buddhist cosmology. Both pagodas were severly damaged by earthquakes in the…
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