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{{Short description|Burmese pavilion that serve as assembly place for religious events and shelter for travellers}}
[[Image:BurmeseZayat.jpg|thumb|Illustration of a traditional Burmese zayat]]▼
{{for|people named Zayat|Zayat (surname)}}
A '''zayat''' ({{MYname|MY=ဇရပ္|MLCTS=ja. rap}}; {{IPA2|zəjaʔ}}) is a [[Burma| Burmese]] building found in almost every village. It serves primarily as a shelter for travelers, at the same time, is also an assembly place for religious occasions as well as meeting for the villagers to discuss the needs and plans of the village. [[Theravada]] buddhist monks use zayats as their dwelling place while they are exercising precepts on sabath days. [[Vihara| Buddhist monasteries]] may have one or more zayats nearby. Donors mostly build Zayats along main roads aiming to provide the exhausted travelers with water and shelter. Beginning with [[Adoniram Judson]]'s construction of one in [[1818]] Christian missionaries have also adopted their use.<ref>{{cite book | first=Henry | last=Howe | title=Adventures and Achievements of Americans | publisher=Geo. F. Tuttle | location=New York | year=1859}} as seen at [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Eou4xMi8hqyZl&id=yCwJ5xoKSWMC&pg=RA1-PA518&lpg=RA1-PA518&dq=Zayat+teaching+OR+buddhist+OR+buddhism+OR+religion+OR+architecture+OR+building+-rabbit+-russian+-russia+-El-Zayat+-Al-Zayat Google Books]</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = Robina | title=The Story of Yawthit | work=Burma Issues Newsletter, Volume 8 Number 3, March 1998 | url=http://www.burmaissues.org/En/Newsletter/BINews1998-03.php | accessdate=2006-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Capt. C.J.F.S. Forbes, F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S, &c., Officiating Deputy-Commissioner, British Burma| title=British Burma and Its People: Being Sketches of Native Manners, Customs, and Religion | publisher=John Murray | location=London | year=1878}} as seen at [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN05007532&id=Su9Ju7P3n44C&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Zayat+teaching+OR+buddhist+OR+buddhism+OR+religion+OR+architecture+OR+building+-rabbit+-russian+-russia+-El-Zayat+-Al-Zayat Google Books]</ref> ▼
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Contributions, in money or labor, towards the construction, running or elaboration of a zayat are seen as [[
Some zayats have evolved other functions over time. For example, the Jivitadana Sangha Hospital for Buddhist monks and nuns began as a clinic at a zayat.<ref>{{cite web | title=Health and Helplines | work=The Yangon Directory | url=http://www.yangondirectory.com.mm/ydg_GeneralInfo/Health_N_Helplines.asp |
==Literature in English==
Because of the importance of ''zayat'' based evangelism to Adoniram Judson's mission, and the prominence that his first wife [[Ann Hasseltine Judson|
The first [[Fu Manchu]] story entitled ''The Zayat Kiss'' was published as a stand
==Gallery==
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File:Zayat at Kuthodaw Pagoda.jpg| A Zayat (pavilion) at [[Kuthodaw Pagoda]], Mandalay, [[Burma]]
File:Amarapura zayat.JPG| A roadside Zayat (rest house) at [[Amarapura]], Burma
File:Sagaing zayat.JPG|A Zayat at [[Sagaing]], Burma
</gallery>
==See also==
*[[Kyaung]]
*[[Sala kan parian]]
*[[Sala (Thai architecture)|Sala (architecture)]]
==References==
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[[Category:Religious buildings and structures in Myanmar]]
[[Category:Buddhism in Myanmar]]
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