Hwasun Unjusa Temple Sujingmun Gate Seven-story Stone Pagoda

This stone pagoda stands on a high rock outcrop on the mountainside east of Unjusa Temple. With no separate base stone or other special foundation, a square platform was formed directly on the rock to serve in place of a base, and the body of the pagoda was set upon it. On the panel stones between the corner pillars, vertical line designs of seven to eleven lines are finely incised at each storey, every storey taking the same form. On the underside of the roof stone of each storey, the usual support brackets are omitted and a diamond shape is incised instead. Only six storeys of the body now survive, but the pagoda is presumed to have originally had seven. It stands 7.2 m in total height and dates from the Goryeo period.

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Where it is

Region

Hwasun, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료