The North Temple Pagoda(Chinese:北寺塔；pinyin:běisìtǎ), is a provincial preservation unit of historical and cultural relics and is popularly praised as the “Number One Pagoda in South of the Yangtse River ”. The North Temple Pagoda has a long history. It was originally an eleven-storeyed pagoda built by Zhanghui, a monk in the Liang Dynasty. It is a brick and wooden Buddhist pagoda of the style of building and has nine storeys with eight sides each. With the height of 76 meters, it is the highest of the pagodas in Suzhou. It is famous for double eaves and flying corners and is a building in the same type as the Liuhe Pagoda in Hangzhou.