Sandamuni Pagoda

Sandamani Pagoda (Burmese: စန္ဒာမုနိစေတီ; formally နန်းမြေဘုံသာစံနန်းတော်ရာစန္ဒာမုနိဘုရား) is a Buddhist stupa located southwest of Mandalay Hill.

[1] It was commissioned by King Mindon Min in 1874 as a memorial to Mindon Min's younger brother, Kanaung Mintha, who was assassinated along with 3 princes, Malun, Saku, and Maingpyin, during the 1866 Myingun Prince rebellion.

[2][1] The pagoda was erected at the provisional location of the royal palace, the Nanmyay Bontha.

[1] This pagoda contains the graves of the Kanaung, Sagu Mintha, Malun and Maingpyin Princes.

[2] It also contains an iron image of the Buddha cast by Bodawpaya in 1802, and removed from Amarapura by Mindon in 1874.