Hwaryeongjeon Hall Unhangak Pavilion Bokdogak Pavilion Iancheong, Suwon

Hwaryeongjeon Hall in Suwon was built in 1801 as a shrine to house the royal portrait of King Jeongjo (1752-1800), who had led the construction of Hwaseong Fortress (1793-1796), after his death. Together with Gyeonggijeon Shrine in Jeonju, it is one of the rare surviving examples of such a portrait shrine standing outside a palace, and its standing is further enhanced by the fact that every king after Jeongjo personally visited it to perform memorial rites. Unhangak Pavilion, Bokdogak Pavilion and Iancheong form the central building group of Hwaryeongjeon Hall: Iancheong is set at a right angle to Unhangak, the main hall, and linked to it by Bokdogak, producing a U-shaped layout. This differs from early Joseon-period portrait shrines, in which a separate Iancheong stood apart from a jeongjagak-style main hall, the T-shaped hall of the kind used for royal memorial rites, and instead shows the new spatial arrangement adopted for portrait shrines in the late Joseon period. In addition, the plan of the main hall places a hapja, an enshrined chamber for the royal portrait, at the centre, flanked by side rooms with ondol underfloor heating, while the toegan, or eave bays, used for storing various items are given a different bay size from the main bays, a device that reveals a system of architectural hierarchy.

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Suwon, Gyeonggi

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Treasure · 보물