Shwedagon (official name: Shwedagon Zedi Daw), also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a stupa or pagoda as high as 98 meters (321.5 feet) gold-plated and is located in Yangon, Myanmar. This pagoda is located in the western part of Lake Kandawgyi, Singuttara hill, and dominates the views of the city of Yangon. Buddhist Stupa is the most sacred for the people of Burma because it saves the previous Buddha relics, which sticks Kakusandha, Konagamana water filter, a robe of Kassapa and eight hairs of Gautama Siddhartha, the historical Buddha. No one knows exactly when the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar built-legend has it that the pagoda is 2,500 years old though archaeologists estimate that the pagoda was built between the 6th century and to-10.
Now when people say "golden temple" they usually mean that the structure is golden in color. But when it comes to the Shwedagon Pagoda, golden literally means covered in gold. In the 15th century, a queen of the Nation Mon donate gold to the temple. This tradition continues until today, where the pilgrims used their savings to buy a small package for the Gold Leaf placed on the temple walls.
Spire of the stupa dome or covered more than 5,000 diamonds and 2,000 rubies, even dipaling over 76 carats gems there.
