Since it was built completely of timber, it has been known popularly as the Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian County. Standing 67.31 meters high, it is the only extant large wooden pagoda in China and ...

Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple, well known as the Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian County, was built in the year 1056 AD with tenon-and-mortise work. The 67.31-meter-high building is the tallest and ...

The pagoda is octagonal, more than forty meters tall, and has nine storeys. The four lower storeys are made of bricks with wooden eaves. The brackets on the first three levels and the base of the ...

At 67.31 meters tall, the Sakyamuni Pagoda of the Fogong Temple in Yingxian county, also known as the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, is one of the world's oldest and tallest of its kind. Built during the ...