An exhaust gas purification method which is capable of purifying nitrogen oxide to be included in exhaust gas from a lean burn engine such as a boiler, a gas turbine or a lean-burn-type gasoline engine, a diesel engine, effectively, in particular, even at low temperature, with spray-supplying an aqueous solution of urea as the reducing component to the selective reduction catalyst.The exhaust gas purification method for reducing selectively NOx in exhaust gas, which is exhausted from a lean burn engine, with a selective reduction catalyst and ammonia, characterized in thatan aqueous solution of urea is spray-supplied to the selective reduction catalyst, comprising at least the following zeolite (A) and the hydrolysis promotion component of urea (B), and it is contacted at 150 to 600° C., and ammonia is generated in a ratio of [NH3 / NOx=0.5 to 1.5] to NOx in exhaust gas, as converted to ammonia, and a nitrogen oxide is decomposed into nitrogen and water.zeolite (A): zeolite comprising an iron elementhydrolysis promotion component (B): a complex oxide comprising at least one kind selected from titania or titanium, zirconium, tungsten, silicon or alumina