Geoeopjaesansindang Hall of Yeogyeongam Hermitage (Bu)

The building is known to have been built in 1715, the 41st year of King Sukjong, by Kwon Yi-jin (1668-1734), styled Yuhoedang, originally to guard his ancestors' graves; it was later used by his descendants and students as a place of study. Centred on Yeogyeongam, the shrine hall Geoeopjae stands in front and the mountain-spirit shrine Sansindang stands behind. Yeogyeongam is a relatively large building, with a floor plan of five bays across the front and three bays in depth, to which two bays were added behind each side toe-bay, forming a U-shaped plan overall. Of the five front bays, a Buddhist altar hall occupies the three bays on the left, which have a front retreat bay, while the two bays on the right form the kitchen. At the rear, of the two left-hand bays, one has a wooden-plank floor and the other an ondol (heated) room, while both of the two right-hand bays are ondol rooms. Structurally, rough natural stones were laid as column bases on a natural-stone platform, and thick, round columns were raised on them; capitals were placed on top of the columns, forming a simple bracket system. Inside, the ceiling is a coffered "well" ceiling, with a recessed-panel ceiling over the front retreat bays. Geoeopjae, situated below Yeogyeongam, is a single-row, straight building of six bays across the front and one bay in depth; the two-bay daecheong (open wooden-floored hall) on the right served as a summer study room, and the two ondol rooms on the left as a winter study room. Structurally, round columns stand on natural stone footings set on a platform roughly built of unhewn stones, and support the upper structure; capitals sit on top of the columns, joined to rectangular ikgong brackets that bear the weight of the roof, making it an ikgong-style building. The frame is of the simplest three-purlin type, and the roof is a single-eaved gable roof. The third bay from the left bears a plaque reading "Geoeopjae," and in his Geoeopjaegi (Record of Geoeopjae), Kwon Yi-jin described it as "a house where one lives while studying." A pond is said to have once lain in front of Geoeopjae, but it no longer survives. Sansindang, situated behind Yeogyeongam, was built in 1882 and measures one bay by one bay. A small altar was set up inside, enshrining a painting of the mountain spirit. An inscription beneath the horizontal timber under the ridge purlin records the construction date using the old reign-name system, as the fifth sexagenary cycle after the start of the Chongzhen era, the eighth year of Guangxu — that is, 1882.

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Jung-gu, Daejeon

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Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산