The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Shanxi Province, China is the oldest and tallest wooden multi-story building in the world. Completed in 1056, it is an octagonal shaped nine story pagoda constructed using double-barrel tenon-and-mortise joinery. At 67.31 meters tall, it follows architectural principles of having peripheral columns surrounded by corridor columns.
The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Shanxi Province, China is the oldest and tallest wooden multi-story building in the world. Completed in 1056, it is an octagonal shaped nine story pagoda constructed using double-barrel tenon-and-mortise joinery. At 67.31 meters tall, it follows architectural principles of having peripheral columns surrounded by corridor columns.
The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Shanxi Province, China is the oldest and tallest wooden multi-story building in the world. Completed in 1056, it is an octagonal shaped nine story pagoda constructed using double-barrel tenon-and-mortise joinery. At 67.31 meters tall, it follows architectural principles of having peripheral columns surrounded by corridor columns.
(1056 CE ) Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple, is located in the northwest corner of the county, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China.
The first Wooden Pagoda
Completed in 1056, it was known as the first pagoda during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It also the oldest and tallest wooden multi-storey building of the world. The pagoda is a stereoscopic temple which is built along the vertical space. The pagoda takes the shape of an octagon in the The external peripheral columnis surrounded by corridor columns, a layout known as Jinxiang doudi cao surrounded by a corridor in Yingzhao fashi (Treatise on Architectural Methods). The whole wooden pagoda has nine stories in all.
The pagoda is a double-barrel wooden structure
constructed with tenon-and-mortise work. It is composed of three parts: pagoda base, the mainbody and Tasha. The whole pagoda is as high as 67.31 meters from the ground to the top. Xiangguo Temple The Hall of Supreme Harmony, Forbidden City
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