The powerful earthquake that Myanmar shook on Friday took a significant toll of historical and religious locations throughout the country, to overthrow pagodes, collapse sections of Buddhist monasteries and reduce centuries old monuments for debris, according to photos and videos that are divided by witnesses and verified by the New York.
In his last count on Saturday morning, Said the government of Myanmar That more than 3,000 buildings were damaged, including around 150 mosques and pagodas.
Southwest of Mandalay the 200-year-old ME now seemed to be a brick monastery largely destroyed. Layers of the building Distinguishing balconies Had collapsed around the extensive interior walls.
To the southeast of Mandalay, a video showed the graceful golden striker of the Shwe Sar Yan Pagoda that crossed, to the shouting of spectators.
Seconds later, Video showed their five -storey monastery building that collapsed for them. Dozens of monks who lived in the monastery slept on mats in nearby streets on Friday evening. One of them, tired wet ashin, photographed The scene.
Photos shared by the Burma Human Rights Network Showed fallen minarets and domes of mosques in different parts of the country. The online news output Mizzima, stating local officials and residents, reported that 490 people were Killed in the mosque collapsed On Friday.
In Pindaya, 70 miles from the epicenter, Buddhist monuments became known as stupas that decorated a large monastery, overthrown and cracked the basis of others who survived.
Everywhere around the stupas, the remains of gold towers and the red bricks that are common for the region, the land was dotted.
In one witness video, spectators cracked in the monastery of the biggest stupas in a after -shock.
“Pindaya rather felt some earthquakes, but not as strong as today’s,” said Tun Tun Aye, the manager of a Facebook page for the monastery. He said the stupas were more than a century old and that he did not know how the monastery would be restored.
In Nepal in 2015, billions of dollars were promised to reconstruction after two earthquakes destroyed the country. Initially impeded by bureaucracy, the restoration led to one revival in traditional craftsmanship In the country.
But in Myanmar, which is ruled by a military junta that has terrorized civilian areas while it fights against a rebel movement, setting up a uniform and internationally supported reconstruction effort is probably more challenging.
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