Myeongnyundang Hall of Gangneunghyanggyo Local Confucian School

Myeongnyundang Hall of Gangneunghyanggyo Local Confucian School is a pavilion-style building of eleven bays across the front and two bays in depth, making it the largest myeongnyundang (lecture hall) surviving among Korea's local Confucian schools (hyanggyo). In the early Joseon period it existed as an independent eleven-bay long pavilion (jangnu) called Namnu ("South Pavilion"); in the early seventeenth century the pavilion was repaired and began to be used as the myeongnyundang, and after further minor repairs it has been maintained in this form to the present day. The Myeongnyundang of Gangneunghyanggyo, first built in the early Joseon period and converted for use as a myeongnyundang from the seventeenth century onward, is a building that carries on the tradition of the long pavilions once attached to Confucian schools. Similar examples are found at some Confucian schools in Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province, but the Myeongnyundang of Gangneunghyanggyo stands out among them for its scale and architectural refinement, and it is fully worthy of designation as a state-designated heritage item (treasure).

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Region

Gangneung, Gangwon

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Treasure · 보물