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Four Gates Pagoda 四门塔Sìmén Tǎ
National heritage site · Jinan, Shandong
- Time needed
- About an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jinan
- Region
- Shandong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Four Gates Pagoda
A single-storey stone pagoda of square plan, about 7 m along each side, with an arched doorway in each face and a roof of stacked stone slabs, standing beside the ruins of Shentong Temple. An inscription found inside the roof in 1972 dates it to 611, in the Sui dynasty, and it is thought to be the oldest surviving pavilion-style stone pagoda in China. Inside, a central pillar carries four seated Buddhas dated to 544, and an old pine and two small Tang-dynasty pagodas stand nearby.
How to get to Four Gates Pagoda
Near Liubu in the hills south of Licheng district, about 36 km by road south-south-east of central Jinan, beside the Thousand-Buddha Cliff.
Nearby
- Mount Tai 泰山 20 km
China's most sacred peak, climbed by emperors and by night hikers chasing sunrise
Also within 20 km: Thousand-Buddha Cliff 千佛崖 (under 10 km), Jinxiangshan Amusement Park 金象山乐园 (under 10 km), Jiudingta Chinese Ethnic Park 九顶塔中华民族欢乐园 (under 10 km), Red Leaf Valley 红叶谷 (under 10 km), Laozhuang Great Buddha 老庄大佛 (under 10 km), Jiuru Mountain Waterfalls 九如山瀑布群 (20 km).
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