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Friday, January 9, 2015

Signal Pagoda (အလံျပ ဘုရား)

The pagoda we rarely see: the elegant Signal Pagoda (အလံျပ ဘုရား) is now inside the old War Office compound.

This very early photograph was taken in November1855 by Linnaeus Tripe, at a time when the pagoda acted as a "signal" for ships approaching Rangoon harbour.
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