Shwedagon (official name: Shwedagon Zedi Daw), also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a stupa or pagoda as high as 98 meters (321.5 feet) which plated gold and are located in Yangon, Myanmar. Pagoda is located in the western part of Lake Kandawgyi, in Singuttara hill, and dominates the view of the city of Yangon. Buddhist Stupa is the most sacred for the people of Burma for storing relics of previous Buddhas, namely stick Kakusandha, Konagamana water filter, a piece of robe Kassapa and eight hairs of Gautama Siddhartha, the historical Buddha.
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