MAKE A MEME View Large Image Fytche Square, Rangoon.jpg Albert Fytche During the mid- to late-19th century the British rebuilt Rangoon as a colonial city on a geometric grid plan and wide tree-lined streets were laid out around the Sule Pagoda establishing it as the ...
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Keywords: Fytche Square, Rangoon.jpg Albert Fytche During the mid- to late-19th century the British rebuilt Rangoon as a colonial city on a geometric grid plan and wide tree-lined streets were laid out around the Sule Pagoda establishing it as the centre of the city The pagoda is built in the traditional bell shape of the Burmese stupa or zeidi and is also gilded Rangoon's most famous stupa the Shwe Dagon Pagoda can be seen silhouetted on the horizon http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/f/019pho000752s10u00020000 html British Library photograph cm British Library object history credit line accession number 1895 PD-old-auto-1923 1911 Photographs by Philip Adolphe Klier Images from the British Library Ž Sule pagoda Rangoon in the 19th century ImageNote 3 1264 816 775 963 4000 3129 2 Sule pagoda ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 2695 1110 860 294 4000 3129 2 Shwedagon pagoda Ž ImageNoteEnd 4
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