Zoroastrian tower in Jiexiu

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The Zoroastrian Tower or Zoroastrian Temple ( Chinese  祆 神 楼 , Pinyin Xiānshén lóu ) in the city of Jiexiu , is a Zoroastrian building ( dachma ) from the time of the Northern Song Dynasty in the Chinese province of Shanxi . The current building complex dates from the Qing Dynasty . The Chinese art historian Jiang Boqin has done a lot for his research.

He has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (4-168) since 1996 .

literature

  • Jiang Boqin (Art History Institute, Sun Yat-sen University , Guangzhou). "An iconological survey of the decorative elements on the Zoroastrian temple in Jiexiu, Shanxi", trans. Bruce Doar, China Archeology and Art Digest 4: 1 (2000), pp. 85-101
  • Jiang Boqin 姜伯勤: "Shanxi Jiexiu Xianshenlou gu jianzhu zhuangshi de tuxiang yanjiu" 山西 介休 祆 神 楼 古 建筑 装饰 的 图像 学 考察, Wenwu 1999

Remarks

  1. ↑ The character 祆 ( xiān ) is often confused with 袄 ( ǎo ) (see e.g. 介休 袄 神 楼 ( Memento of March 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )).

Coordinates: 37 ° 2 '2.2 "  N , 111 ° 55' 28.4"  E