The Ananda Temple is a Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar, completed around 1105 under King Kyanzittha of the Pagan Kingdom and considered one of the finest surviving examples of the early Mon-influenced style of Bagan temple architecture. Built on a cruciform plan around a square central core, the temple rises through receding terraces to a corncob shaped stupa finial gilded in gold, and each of its four faces holds a standing Buddha image roughly nine meters tall. Its whitewashed exterior, restored after damage in a 1975 earthquake, and its glazed terracotta relief tiles depicting Jataka tales around the lower terraces, have made it one of the most visited of the thousands of temples that survive across the Bagan plain. Bagan as a whole, including the Ananda Temple, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Consecrated 1105 CE under King Kyansittha, its corridor-vaulted brick plan and gilded spire a peak surviving example of Bagan-period temple architecture.
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Source Ananda Temple (Wikipedia)
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Myanmar, located there.
Sources
1. Ananda Temple (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
The Ananda Temple (Burmese: အာနန္ဒာ ဘုရား, pronounced [ànàɰ̃dà pʰəjá]), located in Bagan, Myanmar is a Buddhist temple built in 1105 AD during the reign (1084-1112/13) of King Kyansittha (Hti-Hlaing Min) of the Pagan Dynasty.
Ananda Temple, Layout section
The superstructure is 51 metres (167 ft) in height formed by decorated terraces.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Ananda Temple is a Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar, completed around 1105 under King Kyanzittha of the Pagan Kingdom and considered one of the finest surviving examples of the early Mon-influenced style of Bagan temple architecture. Built on a cruciform plan around a square central core, the temple rises through receding terraces to a corncob shaped stupa finial gilded in gold, and each of its four faces holds a standing Buddha image roughly nine meters tall. Its whitewashed exterior, restored after damage in a 1975 earthquake, and its glazed terracotta relief tiles depicting Jataka tales around the lower terraces, have made it one of the most visited of the thousands of temples that survive across the Bagan plain. Bagan as a whole, including the Ananda Temple, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
It has been built with bricks and plaster depicting iconographic images in stones and plaques (terra-cotta glazed tiles) with the main purpose of educating the people of the region in the religious ethos of Theravada Buddhism and in accordance with the personal beliefs of the King Kyansittha.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Ananda Temple
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- Wikidata Q485727, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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