Five-story Stone Pagoda in Nawon-ri, Gyeongju

This five-story stone pagoda is presumed to have been built in the 8th century during the Unified Silla period(668-935). It has been called the "White Pagoda of Nawon-ri Village" because the stones from which it was built are a bright white color.

It consists of a two-tiered base, five sets of body and roof stones, and a partially destroyed decorative top. The first-story body stone is made of four stones fit together, but the remaining body stones are each made of a single stone. The upper and lower halves of the first-and second-story roof stones are made of separate stones. On the corners of each roof stone, there is a hole where a wind chime would have been hung.

In 1996, when the pagoda was dismantled for repair, a gilt-bronze reliquary was discovered in the third-story roof stone. It contained artifacts such as three nine-story gilt-bronze pagodas, a three-story gilt-bronze pagoda, a gilt-bronze Buddhist statue, and a fragment of Buddhist scriptures written in ink.

Source: Korea Heritage Service signboard ↗ · collected 2026-10-08