{"id":5516,"date":"2026-05-01T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:05:56","slug":"akkapat-u-chun-su-a-pathi-national-the-myowun-town-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2026\/05\/01\/akkapat-u-chun-su-a-pathi-national-the-myowun-town-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Akkapat U Chun Su, a Pathi National, The Myowun (Town Governor)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Myowun (Town Governor) Akkapat U Chun Su, a Pathi National<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 April 2016 | M-Media<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the reign of King Mindon, four town governors were appointed, whereas under his son King Thibaw, only three governors were appointed. The third volume of the Konbaung Dynasty Royal Chronicle (Maha Yazawin)<\/em> records the following: “On the 7th waxing day of Tabaung, in the year 1245 of the Burmese Era, the town governors were ordered to guard and maintain the royal city and criminal affairs. The 12 gates, 12 wards inside the city, and their watchmen, along with 57 major city gates and 124 outpost guards outside the city, were disbanded. The Nandaw-Mingalar Horse Duties Officer with 150 men was assigned to the Mandalay Town Governor, and the Shwehlan Town Governor was assigned 150 Shwehlan duty officers respectively \u2014 to stand guard and maintain law and order, prevent theft, fire, and disorder, through day and night patrols.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mandalay Town Governor held the title of Mingyi Thiri Maha Zeya Gamani<\/em> and was named U Pe Si<\/strong>. His biography and charitable deeds can be found inscribed on a stone inscription inside the Ratanabon Thea Zedi, to the west of Ywar Hine village. The Shwehlan Town Governor held the title of Mingyi Maha Min Gaung Naw Ratha<\/em>, and the Akkapat Town Governor bore the title of Mingyi Maha Minthing Razathara<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Akkapat Town Governor is known to have been named U Chun Su<\/strong>, a man of Pathi<\/strong> (Burmese Muslim) ethnicity. Having observed architectural styles abroad: most notably in Italy<\/strong>, he constructed the famous brick monastery of Akkapat<\/strong> within what is now the Maha Dipa Yin monastery complex, drawing inspiration from those European designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Akkapat Town Governor was also graciously granted the title of Coastal Town Lord (Pinl\u00e8 Myosa\u02d0)<\/strong> by royal favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His descendants lived to the east of the Power Station in Mandalay<\/strong>, in the area now believed to be where the Wakaf building<\/strong> stands today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Akkapata Town Governor built his meritorious monastery in a uniquely distinctive style, featuring spiral staircases in a conical form<\/strong>, unlike anything seen before. He was one of those who had traveled to Europe \u2014 including Italy and France<\/strong> \u2014 as a royal scholar during the reign of King Mindon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Excerpted from the article “The Royal Capital Built with Enclosures” by the celebrated journalist and author Nat Mauk Tun Shein<\/strong>, published on 6 November 2015 in the Kyemon (Mirror) newspaper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos shared via Zaw Tun’s Facebook page.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credit EMG<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Myowun (Town Governor) Akkapat U Chun Su, a Pathi National 23 April 2016 | M-Media During the reign of King Mindon, four town governors were appointed, whereas under his son King Thibaw, only three governors were appointed. The third volume of the Konbaung Dynasty Royal Chronicle (Maha Yazawin) records the following: “On the 7th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,6,133,127,1,11,10,16,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-racism","category-articles","category-history","category-human-rights-constitution-federal-democracy-social-nets-minority-rights","category-islam-hope-allah-swt","category-local-news","category-myanmar-muslims-history","category-news","category-opinion","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}