Sule Paya Rotunda

Right at the heart of downtown Yangon is the Sule Pagoda or Paya. This pagoda sits on a rotunda where a lot of traffic passes by. The British who organized the layout of Yangon made Sule Paya the center of the city. This is also where most of the colonial buildings were built. It is said that the Sule Paya precedes the Shwedagon Paya and interestingly, the nat spirit which was said to reside in the the Sule Paya pointed out the location where the Shwedagon Paya is supposed to be built.
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