The Songyue Pagoda

【received #305 from China】

This card from China, shows The Songyue Pagoda, located at the Songyue Monastery on Mount Song, in Henan province.

What a unique shape! According to Wiki, that tower has twelve-sided, 40 m (131 ft) high and built of yellowish brick held together with clay mortar. It is the oldest surviving pagoda and was built at a time when, according to records, almost all pagodas were of wood.

★UNESCO

Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth”