Dagoba Jetavanarama

The Jetavanaramaya is a stupa located in the ruins of Jetavana monastery in the UNESCO world heritage city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. It was the world's tallest stupa at 122 meters and the third tallest structure in the world when it was built by King Mahasena of Anuradhapura. The stupa is believed to hold a part of a sash worn by Buddha and is significant in the island's history as it represents the tensions within the Theravada and Mahayana sects of Buddhism. The structure is no longer the tallest but is still the largest, with a base-area of 233,000 square meters. Approximately 93.3 million baked bricks were used in its construction. The compound covers approximately 5.6 hectares and is estimated to have housed 10,000 Buddhist monks. The stupa has a 8.5-meter deep foundation and sits on bedrock. Visitors can see stone inscriptions with the names of those who contributed to the building effort and a museum with various artifacts from the 2nd century BC to the last quarter of the 3rd century