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| Keywords: Mosque, Amarapura.jpg en Photograph by Linnaeus Tripe with a view looking towards the ornately embellished minaret of a mosque at Amarapura in Burma Myanmar from a portfolio of 120 prints Tripe an officer from the Madras Infantry was the official photographer attached to a British diplomatic mission to King Mindon Min of Burma in 1855 This followed the British annexation of Pegu after the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 Aside from official duties the mission was instructed to gather information regarding the country and its people Tripe's architectural and topographical views are of great documentary importance as they are among the earliest surviving photographs of Burma Amarapura on the Irrawaddy Ayeyarwady river was twice the capital of the Burmese kings of the Konbaung dynasty from 1782 the year of its foundation by King Bodawpaya to 1823 and again from 1837 to 1860 after which Mandalay 11 km to the north became capital Amarapura was the site of the first British Embassy to Burma in 1795 and played host again to Tripe's Mission Tripe wrote of this mosque 'This is in China Street There are some thousands of Mahomedans and numbers of Mosques in and about Amerapoora The architecture of the latter partakes much of the Burmese element' British Library image http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/n/019pho0000061s1u00052000 html Creator Linnaeus Tripe 1855 Public domain PD-old-100 Photographs of Burma by Linnaeus Tripe 1855 photographs Mosques in Myanmar Amarapura Photographs from the British Library | ||||
