Shwegugyi

Site common name	Shwegugyi
Type of artwork	Architecture
Province/City	Bagan
State	Mandalay
Country	Myanmar
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 21.170556 Long : 94.862222

History of production	King Alaungsitthu had this temple constructed.
Art	Shwegugyi is considered to be the example of the transition period, between the tradition of the dim and the bright interior. The windows of this temple become fully-opened without any lattice allowing the light to penetrate inside the temple. The door at the centre of the body also allows the brightness light to penetrate into the interior. The roof is devoid of sloping roof but it is now designed in the form of the stepped pyramidal roof. These characters anticipate the later style of the temple in Late Pagan art.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Pagan
Age	10th-12th century A.D.
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Theravada

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali