Wonders3 - Porcelain Tower of Nanjing

Title

Porcelain Tower of Nanjing

Latitude

32.0482

Longitude

118.76833

Place

Nanjing, China

Geocoding Status

The geocoder found no matches.

World_Time

Medieval Mind

Image_Url

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Link_Url

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcelain_Tower_of_Nanjing

Brief

The people of China called it Bao'ensi, the "Temple of Gratitude." European visitors who beheld the structure called it the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing and labeled it one of the wonders of the world. But warfare and subsequent destruction overtook it in th

Year_Constructed

Description

Still, for many people who had known the tower firsthand, it was a sublimely elegant example of a Buddhist pagoda. "The best contrived and noblest structure of all the East," wrote Le Comte, the French mathematician who had made a visit to China in the ea

Description_2

From an octagonal base about 97 feet in diameter, the tower's nine stories rose pyramidally to a height of about 260 feet. According to information obtained by an American missionary who journeyed to Nanjing in 1852, the original plan for the tower had ca

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