The structure is covered in gold plates and topped with a crown containing 4,531 diamonds, including one that weighs 72 carats.

The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred site in Burma. Its origins can be traced back to the first millennium, when a king was inspired by a legend involving eight strands of Buddha's hair.

The Pagoda was built to replicate the Shwedagon Pagoda of Yangon in Myanmar. ALSO READ NGO Volunteers tried revamping Mumbai’s Borivili station and look what happened! The Pagaoda took 11 ...

An AFP picture of the Shwedagon pagoda -- located 400 kilometres from the Zay Ti Gyi temple -- shows a different and much larger structure.