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Uiseong Tapri Five-Story Stone Pagoda

Uiseong Tapri Five-Story Stone Pagoda
Designation No	National Treasure No. 77
Name	Uiseong Tap-ri Five-Story Pagoda
Date of designation	Dec. 20, 1962
Location	1383-1, Tapri-ri, Gumseong-myeon, Uiseong-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do
Era	The Three Kingdoms (Silla, Goguryeo and Baekje)

The Uiseong Tap-ri Five-Story Pagoda is a five-story stone pagoda from the Unified Silla Kingdom located in Tapri village. The five-story stone body is built on a low platform, and the tower is unique in displaying both a brick tower-style made of brick-shaped stones, and a wooden pagoda.
The platform is made of several stones, and different types of stones are used for the pillars in the middle and one in the corner to make a wooden pagoda-shaped body. The first story is higher than the second one, and from there, the height is drastically reduced, and a shrine containing a Buddhist statue is installed in the first story.
Like in brick pagodas, the top side and the bottom side of the roof stones are layered, and the top side has six layers while the bottom side has five. The four corners of the roof stones are slightly raised as shown in the tip of the roof of the wooden architecture. It has wooden towers in various places, and brick towers in other places. So, it has been an invaluable material for studying the stone tower construction method in the first half of the Unified Silla Kingdom era along with the Bunhwangsa Temple Stone Pagoda (National Treasure No. 30)