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Ananda Temple: Then and Now

One of the finest of the thousands of temples on the plain of Bagan, completed in 1105 under King Kyansittha.

Historical view
Ananda Temple, historical view
Ananda Temple around 1900. Rowe & Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Ananda Temple, today
Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayMyanmar
StatusStanding
Date1105
Nearest city on the mapYangon (about 497 km)
Location21.171° N, 94.869° E
Map showing Ananda Temple in 1100Ananda Temple
Border map for 1100. See the world in 1100.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–401 BCUnclaimed / no data
400 BC–324 BCAustro-Asiatic rice cultures
323 BC–201 BCUnclaimed / no data
200 BC–101 BCThai
100 BC–799Unclaimed / no data
800–899Pyu state
900–999Pagan
1000–1099Kingdom of Pagan
1100–1299Pyu state
1300–1491Pagan
1492–1649Burmese kingdoms
1650–1782Ava
1783–1879Burma
1880–1944British Raj
1945–todayBurma

More: Historic landmarks of Myanmar · All landmarks

Further reading

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.