Mireuksa stone pagoda
Pagoda de piedra de Mireuksa
- Date
- 639 · confidence high
- Place
- Iksan, North Jeolla, South Korea
- Credited to
- Kingdom of Baekje
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A granite pagoda that transfers the carpentry of wooden pagodas into stone, with imitated columns, beams and roofs. It is the largest and oldest surviving stone pagoda in Korea, and sets the model for later Korean stone pagodas.
The 2009 discovery of a reliquary inscribed with the date 639 confirmed the pagoda's consecration at that time. It partly collapsed and was repaired with cement in 1915; a restoration using original stone was completed in 2018.
What it led to
- Baekje and Silla stone pagodas such as Jeongnimsa and Bunhwangsa
- the Korean tradition of granite pagodas without wood
- spread of Baekje Buddhism to Yamato