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Guanghui Temple Hua Pagoda 广惠寺华塔Guǎnghuì Sì Huātǎ

National heritage site · Shijiazhuang, Hebei

Guanghui Temple Hua Pagoda (广惠寺华塔)
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0
Time needed
About an hour
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Shijiazhuang
Region
Hebei
Type
Heritage
Listed as
National heritage site

About Guanghui Temple Hua Pagoda

A four-storey, eight-sided brick pagoda, the main surviving building of Guanghui Temple in the old town of Zhengding. Its top storey is a cone-shaped body covered in modelled figures of warriors, lions, elephants, Buddhas and bodhisattvas, in the manner of a flower bouquet, which gives this rare 'flower pagoda' type its name. The temple was founded in the Tang, the tower is mainly of Song–Jin date, and it was restored in 1994–99.

How to get to Guanghui Temple Hua Pagoda

In the old town of Zhengding, about 11 km north-north-east of central Shijiazhuang.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Zhengding City Wall 正定城墙 (under 10 km), Chengling Pagoda, Linji Temple 临济寺澄灵塔 (under 10 km), Liang Ancestral Hall, Zhengding 正定梁氏宗祠 (under 10 km), Kaiyuan Temple, Zhengding 开元寺 (under 10 km), Lingxiao Pagoda 凌霄塔 (under 10 km), Stele of the Prince of Qinghe (Li Baochen Stele) 大唐清河郡王纪功载政之颂碑 (under 10 km).

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