Pagoda at Xingshengjiao Temple, Buddhist pagoda in Songjiang District, China

The pagoda at Xingshengjiao Temple is a nine-story, 42.65-meter brick-and-wood tower on a square plan, each side about 6 meters wide. Its brick body has no central pillar; wooden balconies with railings ring each level, and the top carries a 7.85-meter spire. Bronze bells called jingniao hang from the eave corners, and a colored Buddhist painting survives on the third floor's west wall.

Built between 1068 and 1077, when Songjiang was the largest city in the Shanghai region and a stop on the Grand Canal between Hangzhou and Suzhou. The Xingshengjiao Temple itself was founded in 949; the pagoda is all that remains of it. Repairs are recorded under the Yuan in 1284 and 1302, the Ming in 1395 and 1447, and the Qing in 1660 and 1770, when the spire was replaced. The 1975–1977 restoration kept 111 of 177 original Song bracket sets.

The name Xingshengjiao refers to the temple founded in 949, of which only the pagoda survives. A local boy, Xia Qiusheng, wrote "Down with Japanese imperialism" on the pagoda wall in December 1938. In 1975 restorers found sutras written in a monk's finger blood inside the finial's vase, left during a Daoguang-era fundraising campaign.

The pagoda stands in Fangta Park on Zhongshan East Road in Songjiang's old town. Since 2009 an extra ticket is charged to climb, separate from park admission, and visitor numbers on the tower are limited. Graffiti has been reported on upper floors, so expect plain whitewashed walls inside. The park also holds the Tianhou Palace hall, moved here from Shanghai.

The 1974 excavation found a brick crypt beneath the pagoda, not inside a statue. It held the tomb of the 11th-century monk Miaoyuan, whose ashes were placed inside a 42 cm bronze reclining Buddha. Two elephant teeth and seven relic beads lay in two silver cases, all within a lacquer case inside a stone one.