Iron Pagoda The Iron Pagoda was first built in 825 by
Li Deyu, the Duke of Wei in the early
Tang dynasty (618–907). In 1078, in the reign of
Emperor Shenzong in the
Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), the pagoda was relocated to the present site. The pagoda originally had seven storeys, but the top three storeys of the pagoda collapsed at the end of the 19th century whither only the lower four storeys remaining. In 1960, while the local government restored the pagoda, they founded a rectangular box underground. Over 700
Śarīras were preserved in the box, eleven of them are the Śarīra of
Sakyamuni. It has been inscribed among the "
Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Jiangsu" by the
State Council of China in 2013. ==References==