The World's Largest Book!!

World's Largest Book located in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) at the Kuthodaw Pagoda.

Kuthodaw Pagoda

Largest Book


  

The Kuthodaw Pagoda is a golden temple. It was built 1857 by King Mindon Min. It features a collection of 730 marble tablets surrounding the base of its structures, double-sided with text.

today the sprawling book still stands, and the writing has been refilled with simple black ink so that while the opulent glory may have disappeared, the messages of the writings themselves live on for future generations. 

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