Seonwonjeon Hall of Changdeokgung Palace

Seonwonjeon Hall is a building in which the portraits of successive Joseon kings were enshrined and rites performed in their honour; it is said that, outside the palace, Jongmyo Shrine served this purpose, while inside the palace it was Seonwonjeon Hall. Originally called Chunhwijeon, the building was relocated from Gyeonghwadang Hall of Gyeongdeokgung Palace in 1656, the seventh year of King Hyojong of Joseon, and was renamed Seonwonjeon in 1695, the twenty-first year of King Sukjong. It enshrined the portraits of Kings Sukjong, Yeongjo, Jeongjo, Sunjo, Ikjong and Heonjong. After a new Seonwonjeon Hall was built in 1921 in the north-west of the rear garden of Changdeokgung Palace and the royal portraits were moved there, this building came to be called the old Seonwonjeon. The royal portraits moved to the newly built Seonwonjeon were, regrettably, lost in a fire during the Korean War in 1950. Structurally simple and free of unnecessary ornamentation, the building is an important example of a royal ancestral rite hall of the Joseon dynasty.

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Where it is

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Jongno-gu, Seoul

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Treasure · 보물