Name: Shwenandaw Monastery
Address: Aungmyaythazan, Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma), MM

Shwenandaw Monastery is a place of worship, located at Aungmyaythazan, Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)

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Aungmyaythazan, Mandalay (Burma)

Added by Jopie, at 03 September 2017

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Htetarka Win

14 May 2018

The place you should visit to the ysdanarbon wood carving
Sserenissima

08 March 2018

Stunning wood carvings, clean and neat surroundings, just mind your step ‘cause there some nails appeared
Romeo Noproblem

24 December 2017

beautiful & large place not much interesting things inside
ZDF Travel

23 December 2017

Shwenandaw Monastery
This monastery is known as Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung or Golden Palace Monastery.It is commonly called as Shwe Kyaung(Golden Monastery), since the whole building was heavily gilded.This monastery had originally been part of the palace complex of Amarapura, and was shifted to Mandalay to become the royal apartment of King Mindon. The bed chamber of King Mindon has been used as the part of it. It was in that chamber King Mindon breathed his last after the prolonged illness.King Thibaw, who succeeded his father King Mindon had if dismantled after the death of his on 1 Oct 1878; and with the materials mainly obtained from it he built this monastery at a cost of circa kyats 120000. When the construction of the building was completed on 18 November 1883 he dedicated it to the Buddhist Order as a monastery on 31 October in the same year.
This monastery has neither a phaya-saung ( Buddha Image Shrine Room) nor a baw-ga saung(Store Room).The whole building was heavily gilt and adorned with glass mosaic and exquisite wood-carvings. The building has considerable deteriorated but the carvings within it, especially the Ten Great Jataka scenes remain well preserved. On the outer walls can still be seen the mythical animals, dancing figures and floral design carved in bold relief.
Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung is famous because it is the only palace building which left from the world war II destruction in which the Royal Palace was burnt down in March 1945, and also the 19 th century typical Myanmar Traditional wood carving.
Credit; Myo Min Kyaw
Soe Thiha

23 November 2017

Original building is burned and this one is re-build around 1990s.
Cassandra Sim

16 November 2017

A short walk away from the teak monastery, not bad. quite pretty but nothing too spectacular though
Chandni Singh

10 September 2017

Large padoga with beautiful facade. Nothing much to see inside but visit it since it is int he same compound as Shwenandaw Kyaung (Golden Palace) and Kuthodaw Pagoda (where the largest book in the world is).