The Twin Pagodas in Quanzhou rank ... They stand on each side of the main hall of Kaiyuan Temple, some two hundred meters from each other. Renshou Pagoda was originally a wooden structure ...

Construction of the pagoda is estimated to have been between 1100 and 1120 towards the end of the Liao Dynasty. The octagonal pagoda, 57.8 meters tall, was erected on a square platform.