Kandawmin Garden Mausolea
Kandawmin Garden Mausolea
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| Coordinates | 16°47′34″N 96°9′4″E / 16.79278°N 96.15111°ECoordinates: 16°47′34″N 96°9′4″E / 16.79278°N 96.15111°E |
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| Location | Dagon Township, Yangon, Myanmar |
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The Kandawmin Garden Mausolea are mausoleum complex in Yangon, Myanmar. The site contains four mausolea of Burmese national figures and is located near the southern gate of Shwedagon Pagoda. The successive Burmese military governments feared that the mausolea might become a meeting place for democracy activists and they had fallen into a state of neglect. The former military regime omitted them from Yangon City Heritage List because they are symbols of national liberty and considered them a threat to its status and power.
The site contains mausolea of Supayalat, queen consort of the last king of Myanmar; the nationalist and writer Thakin Kodaw Hmaing; former UN Secretary-General U Thant; and Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother, Khin Kyi.
The mausoleum was built in memory of Supayalat, queen consort of the last king of Myanmar, Thibaw Min, and daughter of King Mindon. She was sent into exile in India in 1885 and allowed to return to Rangoon (Yangon) in 1919. She died six years later, in 1925—shortly before her 66th birthday. The colonial government declared a national holiday on the day of her funeral, but denied the royal family’s request to bury her in Mandalay Palace for fear that it would promote nationalism. Her funeral was held with pomp and ceremony as befitted a Burmese queen, shielded under eight white royal umbrellas, attended by 90 Buddhist monks and the British Governor Sir Harcourt Butler with a guard of honour of the Mounted Police complete with a 30 gun salute.
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