East and West Three-story Stone Pagodas from Docheonsa Temple Site, Mungyeong

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.606

Category

Sites & Pagodas

Era

통일신라시대

Designated year

1976

Location

김천시, 경상북도— 경북 김천시 대항면 북암길 89 (운수리)

Coordinates

36.116751, 128.004524

These two stone pagodas were found lying at the former site of Docheonsa Temple in Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do. They currently stand outside the Daeungjeon Hall of Jikjisa Temple, facing each other from east to west. They are identical in appearance, both of them mounted on a single-tier base and consisting of three stories. The base is made with several wide stone slabs stacked on top of one another. Pillar-shaped sculpted details are added to each of the four corner edges and in the middle of the four lateral planes. The body and roof at each level are separate stones. The body stones have a deeply-cut pillar-shaped design at each corner edge. The roofs are thin and shallow-pitched, and the roof base has a five-tier moulding at the first two levels and a four-tier moulding at the third level. The eaves are turned up lightly at the four corners. The large finials surmounting the two pagodas were added in 1976, when they were brought to their current location. In spite of the body stone at the first story, taller than the two others, the pagodas have an overall refined appearance. The single-tier base and the angle of the roof stone suggest that these pagodas may have been made during the Unified Silla Period.

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