Gyeongju Namsan Mountain Jiamgok Valley Je3sa Temple Site Three-story Stone Pagoda

This three-story stone pagoda stands on a gentle ridge slope, at an elevation of 310 metres, extending southeast from Sajabong Peak on the eastern foothill of Namsan Mountain in Gyeongju. It had collapsed, with its members scattered across the ridge and valley except for the base supporting the first-storey body stone, until the National Gyeongju Research Institute of Cultural Heritage carried out an excavation survey in 2000 and restored it to its present form in January 2003. The top of a square rock was lightly trimmed to serve as the platform, on which a separately carved body-stone support was placed. The body stones and roof stones of the first to third storeys were each cut from a single stone, and the underside of each roof stone has four tiers of eaves supports. The pagoda resembles the three-story stone pagoda at the Je2sa Temple Site in Bipagok Valley on Namsan Mountain, Gyeongju, and is presumed to be a Unified Silla stone pagoda built in the late ninth century. It now stands 3.88 metres tall, making it one of the larger examples among stone pagodas that use a natural rock as their base.

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Region

Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산