Four Gate Pagoda
The Simen Pagoda or Four-Gate Pagoda ( Chinese 四门塔 , Pinyin Sìmén tǎ , English Simen Pagoda / Four-Door Pagoda ) in Jinan City , Shandong Province , China , dates from the Sui Dynasty and is the oldest preserved stone pagoda in China. It is located in today's Licheng district and belonged to the Shentong Temple ( 神通 寺 , Shéntōng sì ).
It represents the straight, rectangular type of a floor pagoda.
The pagoda has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-62) since 1961 .
Web links
- Stone relic and memorial pagodas (PDF file; 85 kB)
- Simen (Four-Door) Pagoda in Licheng of Shandong Province - English
Footnotes
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.koreaverband.de/publikationen/archive/1-02/1-02-art15.pdf
Coordinates: 36 ° 27 '3.2 " N , 117 ° 7' 47.3" E