Porcelain Tower of Nanjing

The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (also known as Bao'ensi , the "Temple of Gratitude", is located in Nanjing, an ancient capital of China, out on the south bank of the Yangtze River. However warfare and subsequent destruction overtook it in the 19th century and it is now under reconstruction. It is an elegant example of a Buddhist pagoda.

The base shape of Porcelain tower is octagonal. The base is about 95 feet in diameter; the tower itself is about 9 stories tall, which is about 250 feet high. The famous porcelain tower was designed by the emperor Yung-lo (1403-1428)

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Every block in the Porcelain tower was dried out in the scorching sun during the day and in the night there were 140 lamps to dry them out. The bricks were made of dazzling white porcelain that would shine in sunlight and this feature made the sight of the tower un forgettable. Colorful stoneware tiles with green, yellow, white, and brown glazes forming images of animals, landscapes, flowers, and bamboo were worked into the porcelain panels were. As the stories went up it narrowed because if they were all the same size it would collapse on top of everything.

A large spire came from the eighth story all the way up to the roof. The spiral staircase went up 130 steps. In 1801 a bolt of lightning struck and knocked of the top three stories. This magnum opus was destroyed soon after the Taiping Rebels gained control of the city and warfare and subsequent destruction overtook it in the 19th century, and this remarkable structure was almost lost to history, almost washed away from the memory of the world.

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Le Comte, the French mathematician who had made a visit to China in the early 19th century "The best contrived and noblest structure of the entire East!"

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Allwondersoftheworld.com relates the glory of the Pagoda like structure of the past the Porcelain tower of Nanjing, which has almost become a ruin these days.