EU: Rangoon/Burma: Landscape with Shwedagon Pagoda (1913) through time

Yangon (Rangoon) 1913 15 photos of this spot

15 photographs taken at the same spot in Yangon (Rangoon), spanning 1913 — 15 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Buddhist pagodas in Rangoon (present-day Yangon), Burma, photographed in 1913. The city's skyline was dominated by gilded stupas and pagodas, a reflection of Burma's deeply Buddhist culture under British colonial rule.

EU: Rangoon, Burma. Pagodas (1913) 1913 Buddhist pagodas in Rangoon (present-day Yangon), Burma, photographed in 1913. The city's skyline was dominated by gilded stupas and pagodas, a reflection of Burma's deeply Buddhist culture under British colonial rule.

EU: Rangoon, Burma. Town Hall (1913) 1913 The Town Hall in Rangoon, Burma, pictured in 1913. As the administrative capital of British Burma, Rangoon had developed a cluster of colonial civic buildings, including its town hall, in the decades before this photograph was taken.

EU: Rangun, Birma. Sampanboote (1913) 1913 Sampan boats on the water at Rangoon, Burma, in 1913. Small wooden boats of this type were widely used for transport and trade along the Irrawaddy delta and the city's waterfront.

EU: Rangun, Birma. Shwedagon-Pagode (1913) 1913 The Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma, photographed in 1913. Gilded and rising above the city, the pagoda is one of the most sacred Buddhist sites in the country and is said to enshrine relics of the Buddha.

EU: Rangun, schiefe Dagon Pagode (1913) 1913 A leaning pagoda near the Shwedagon complex in Rangoon, noted for its tilted structure, photographed in 1913. Smaller stupas such as this one clustered around the main golden pagoda on Singuttara Hill.

EU: Rangoon, Burma. Shwedagon Pagoda (1913) 1913 Another 1913 photograph of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, taken from a different angle than companion images in the same series. The pagoda's terraces attracted a steady stream of pilgrims and visitors throughout the year.

EU: Rangoon, crooked Dagon Pagoda (1913) 1913 This photograph, taken in 1913, again shows the tilted pagoda near Rangoon's Shwedagon complex, echoing a companion image from the same visit. Its distinctive lean made it a notable landmark among the surrounding stupas.

EU: Rangoon, Burma. Shwedagon pagoda, side temple (1913) 1913 A side temple within the Shwedagon Pagoda complex in Rangoon, photographed in 1913. The complex included numerous smaller shrines and pavilions surrounding the main gilded stupa.

EU: Rangun/ Birma: Shwedagon-Pagode, Goldene Pagode (1913) 1913 The gold-covered stupa of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, captured in 1913. Its gilded surface, built up from gold leaf donated by generations of worshippers, made it visible from across the city.

EU: Rangoon/Burma: Landscape with Shwedagon Pagoda (1913) 1913 A landscape view of Rangoon with the Shwedagon Pagoda rising in the distance, photographed in 1913. The pagoda's position on Singuttara Hill made it a dominant feature of the city's skyline from many vantage points.

EU: Rangun, Birma. Privatresidenz am Fluss (1913) 1913 A private residence along a riverbank in Rangoon, photographed in 1913. Homes of this kind lined the waterways that threaded through the city and its surrounding delta.

EU: Rangoon, Burma. Lion statue at a pagoda (1913) 1913 A guardian lion statue, or chinthe, stands watch at a pagoda entrance in Rangoon in this 1913 photograph. Such statues are a traditional feature at the entrances of Buddhist temples throughout Burma.

EU: Rangun, Birma. Löwenstatuen und Shwedagon-Pagode (1913) 1913 Guardian lion statues frame a view toward the Shwedagon Pagoda in this 1913 photograph from Rangoon. The chinthe figures traditionally mark the approach to the pagoda's terraces.

EU: Rangun, Birma. Tempelanlage der Shwedagon-Pagode (1913) 1913 The wider temple complex surrounding the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, photographed in 1913, showing the pavilions and shrines that spread across the hilltop platform beneath the central stupa.

EU: Rangun, Birma: Passagierdampfer Cleveland am Pier (1913) 1913 The passenger steamship Cleveland moored at a pier in Rangoon, photographed in 1913. Ocean liners such as this one carried tourists on round-the-world voyages that called at ports across South and Southeast Asia.