San Francisco Peace Pagoda
| San Francisco Peace Pagoda | |
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Peace Pagoda, San Francisco, CA
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 Shown within San Francisco County
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| Location | Nihonmachi (Japantown) |
| Geographic coordinates | 37°47′06″N 122°25′47″W / 37.785054°N 122.429827°WCoordinates: 37°47′06″N 122°25′47″W / 37.785054°N 122.429827°W |
| Affiliation | Buddhism |
| Country | United States |
| Completed | March 28, 1968 |
The Peace Pagoda is a five-tiered concrete stupa between Post and Geary Streets at Buchanan in San Francisco's Nihonmachi (Japantown). The Pagoda, located in the northeastern corner of Peace Plaza between the Japan Center Mall and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city Osaka, Japan on March 28, 1968.
It was designed by Japanese architect Yoshiro Taniguchi.
Unlike most peace pagodas, this was not constructed by the Buddhist order Nipponzan Myohoji, who began constructing these monuments fourteen years earlier. However, Nipponzan welcomed the pagoda and established a temple in the city.
A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa; a monument to inspire peace, designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds, and to help unite them in their search for world peace.
Yoshiro Taniguchi is a noted Japanese modernist architect who designed the National Museum of Modern Art, the Imperial Theater and the Okura Hotel, all in Tokyo, all from the 1960s. He is the father of architect Yoshio Taniguchi, known for the 2004 redesign of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Graduate of the University of Tokyo.
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