Sule Pagoda
The Sule Pagoda is a Burmese Buddhist stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Maha Bandula Park and Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue.
Maha Bandula Park
Park
The Maha Bandula Park or Maha Bandula Garden is a public park located in downtown Yangon, Burma. The park is bounded by Maha Bandula Garden Street in the east, Sule Pagoda Road in the west, Konthe Road in the south and Maha Bandula Road in the north. Maha Bandula Park is situated 600 feet southeast of Sule Pagoda.
Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue
Synagogue
The Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue is a synagogue, located in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Completed in 1896 to replace an earlier wooden synagogue that was erected in 1854, the current stone synagogue is the only synagogue in Myanmar. Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue is situated 1,700 feet west of Sule Pagoda.
Sakura Tower
Scenic viewpoint
Sakura Tower is a 20-story modern office building in Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Myanmar. The 100 m tower was completed by Japanese contractors in 1999 and was the tallest building in Myanmar from 1999 to 2016. Sakura Tower is situated 1,700 feet north of Sule Pagoda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pabedan Township and Latha Township.
Pabedan Township
Suburb
Pabedan Township is located in the center of downtown Yangon, Myanmar. The township is home to Bogyoke Aung San Market and Theingyi Market, two of the largest markets in all of Yangon.
Latha Township
Suburb
Latha Township is located in the western part of downtown Yangon, and shares borders with Lanmadaw township in the west, Pabedan township in the east, Seikkan township and Yangon river in the south, and Dagon township in the north.
Seikkan Township
Suburb
Seikkan Township was a township located in the western part of Yangon, Myanmar. One of the smallest townships, Seikkan consisted of just three wards. It had a primary school and a hospital.
Sule Pagoda
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Burmese stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar
- Categories: built structure, historic site, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Kyauktada Township, West Yangon District, Yangon, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.77441° or 16° 46′ 28″ north
Longitude
96.15877° or 96° 9′ 32″ east
Open location code
7M8RQ5F5+QG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Sule Pagoda” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sule pagoda”
- Burmese: “ဆူးလေစေတီတော်”
- Burmese: “ဆူးလေဘုရား”
- Chinese: “斯雷宝塔”
- Chinese: “斯雷寶塔”
- Chinese: “苏雷佛塔”
- Chinese: “蘇萊佛塔”
- French: “pagode Sule”
- French: “Pagode Sule”
- German: “Sule-Pagode”
- Indonesian: “Pagoda Sule”
- Italian: “pagoda Sule”
- Italian: “Pagoda Sule”
- Japanese: “スーレー・パゴダ”
- Japanese: “スレー・パゴダ”
- Japanese: “スレー・パヤー”
- Japanese: “スレーパゴダ”
- Japanese: “スレーパヤー”
- Khmer: “វត្តស៊ូលេ”
- Khmer: “វត្តស៊ូឡេ”
- Korean: “술레 파고다”
- Mon: “ကျာ်စုလောဟ် (ဆူးလေစေတီတော်)”
- Mon: “စုလောဟ်၊ ကျာ်စေတဳ”
- Polish: “Pagoda Sule”
- Portuguese: “Pagode Sule”
- Romanian: “Pagoda Sule”
- Russian: “Пагода Суле”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pagoda Sule”
- Slovenian: “Pagoda Sule”
- Spanish: “Pagoda Sule”
- Spanish: “Sule Paya”
- Thai: “เจดีย์ซู่เล”
- Ukrainian: “Пагода Суле”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sule Pagoda and Bengali Sunni Jamae Mosque.
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