Jethavanaramaya Monastery is one of the most largest monastery in the heritage city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. It's original height of 122m (400ft), making it was the tallest stupa and third largest structure in the ancient world but now its remaining 71m (233ft). King Mahasena was in Anuradhapura kindom, started the construction of Jethavanaramaya Stupa and his son of King Maghavanna completed the construction. According to the history, portion of the the Buddha's sash as the relics has been deposited in this sacred stupa. Compound of the stupa covers approximately 5.6 hectares and estimated to housed approximately 10,000 buddhist monks.
During the 11th century, due to the destruction and abandonment of the Anuradapura Kingdom, the stupa was covered by jungle. King Parakramabahu in 12th century of Polonnaruwa Kingdom has tried to renovate this stupa and he rebuilt the stupa to current height.
Jethavanaramaya is one of the 8 places of veneration in the Anuradhapura.
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