Yeongtapsa Temple Seven-story Stone Pagoda

This is a seven-story stone pagoda standing on a rock behind the main hall of Yeongtapsa Temple in Dangjin. The Dangjin-gunsa, a local gazetteer, records that in 1798, the 22nd year of King Jeongjo of Joseon, the monk Yeonamdang Jiyun repaired the Yurigwangjeon hall and erected a five-story pagoda on the rock behind it, giving the temple the name 'Yeongtapsa' at that time — yet tradition holds that the pagoda was originally seven stories. It was later damaged, leaving only five stories standing, until the temple's own adherents restored its seven-story form in the 1920s. The pagoda's seven-story body rises from the rock, which serves as its base. Because the point where the rock meets the pagoda is somewhat misaligned, this does not appear to be the pagoda's original site. Each body stone and roof stone is carved from a single block, and the four faces of the body stones bear carved pillars at each corner. From the first to the fifth story, the roof stones slope gently, their eaves lines nearly straight, whereas the newer sixth and seventh stories curve up sharply at the four corners, with thinner support carvings on their undersides — a visible contrast between the two sections. The finial at the top is extremely simplified in form.

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Region

Dangjin, Chungnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료