Songjiang Square Pagoda

The pagoda was built between 1068 and 1077, when Songjiang was the largest city in the Shanghai region, a prosperous stop on the Grand Canal between Hangzhou and Suzhou. Each side of the ground floor is about long, In 1974, its first-floor staircase was restored. The bronze reclining Buddha was long and more than . The Square Pagoda is the centerpiece of the modern city's Fangta Park, which was organized in 1980 by Feng Jizhong as one of the first reassertions of the importance of traditional Chinese architecture after the ravages of the Cultural Revolution. It was added to Shanghai's nationally-protected sites (as No.83-5) in 1996 and is now Songjiang's most famous landmark. ==See also==