The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is a gilded stupa. The article names no architect or client, and legend says King Okkalapa enshrined the relics more than 2,500 years ago. The infobox lists 1362 to 1363 or earlier, 1462 and 1775, while the text gives 1362 or 1363 as the first chronicle mention and says Hsinbyushin raised it in 1775.
The article names no style. It has a brick core covered with gold plates and is set with 5,448 diamonds and 2,317 rubies. The article gives a height of 325 feet (99 m) and a spire of 367 feet (112 m), and the hill beneath it rises 167 feet (51 m).
An earthquake in 1768 damaged it, and it was rebuilt in 1775. It is an active Theravada Buddhist site with four entrances, where no footwear or socks are allowed. Foreigners were charged 10,000 kyat as of December 2017. The article gives no hours.
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