Myeongnyundang Hall of Gyeongju Local Confucian School

Myeongnyundang Hall of Gyeongju Local Confucian School is an old building that has stood since its reconstruction in 1614, undergoing repairs in the 18th and 19th centuries down to the present day. It is a gable-roofed (matbae) building of five bays across the front and three bays deep, built on a two-tall-column, five-purlin (igoju oryangga) frame — the largest single-building example among Korea's surviving hyanggyo (local Confucian school) myeongnyundang lecture halls, excluding the guest-house type represented by Sungkyunkwan and the Myeongnyundang Hall of Naju Local Confucian School. Abundant documentary records, including repair records, survive, allowing the building's architectural history to be traced in detail. The stonework of its platform and foundation stones, the carving of its ikgong brackets, and the composition of its roof frame all reveal the character of 17th-century architecture, and the hall matches in scale and dignity the Daeseongjeon Hall of Gyeongju Local Confucian School, a treasure within the same complex.

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Where it is

Region

Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

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Treasure · 보물