New "Europe's biggest pagoda" near Paris hosts conference Incense and chants greet the sunrise over the Paris suburb of Evry as hundreds of Buddhist lay men and women, as well as monks an nuns, from some 15 countries gather for a conference in the recently-inaugurated Khanh Anh pagoda. Construction began on Khanh Anh in 1995 and the building, which is said to be Europe's largest pagoda, opened in April. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES