Chinese pavilion
Outside of China, the paifang has long been the symbol of Chinatowns. The largest outside of China is in the United States: "Friendship Archway" at tall and wide, completed in 1986 at H and 7th in Washington D.C.'s Chinatown. In Europe, the largest paifang spans Nelson Street in Liverpool, completed in 2000 and standing tall. The first paifang in the United States was raised in 1915 as a temporary installation for the Chinese pavilion of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, and the oldest still standing was erected in 1938 for Los Angeles, "Chinatown West Gate" on Hill Street; it was listed as a city Historic-Cultural Monument (#825) along with its counterpart, "Chinatown East Gate" (1939, #826) in November 2005.