Jeungsimsa Temple Three-story Stone Pagoda

This stone pagoda stands in front of Obakjeon, the Hall of the Five Hundred Arhats, at Jeungsimsa Temple. It has a three-story body set on a two-tiered platform, following the typical style of Unified Silla stone pagodas. The lower tier of the platform is finely carved on each side with slender, elongated arch-shaped niches (ansang), while the upper tier bears pillar-shaped carvings at the corners and centre of each face. The pagoda body consists of a single body stone and a single roof stone at each level. Pillar-shaped carvings mark the corners of the body stone at every level, and the body stones diminish appropriately in size as they rise, giving the pagoda a sense of stability. The underside of each roof stone has four tiers of eave supports, a style that mainly appeared from the late Unified Silla period into the early Goryeo period, and the four corners curve up slightly, lending the pagoda a light, buoyant look. At the top, only the finial's angwa (a lotus-bud-shaped ornament rising above a square base stone) remains as the crowning decoration. The pagoda is presumed to have been erected in the late Unified Silla period, when Jeungsimsa Temple was founded, and it was dismantled and restored in 1971.

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Where it is

Region

Dong-gu, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산