Seonseonghyeongaeksa Temple

This is a government building that was set up in towns during the Goryeo and Joseon periods, known as a guest house (gaeksa), where local officials paid respects toward the royal palace and visiting envoys were lodged. It is said to have been rebuilt in 1712, the 38th year of King Sukjong of Joseon, and was moved to its present location in 1976 because of the construction of Andong Dam. This guest house has a straight, single-line layout, measuring eleven bays across the front and three bays to the side, and is a gable-roofed building whose roof profile, seen from the side, forms the shape of the character 人 (person). Of the brick-floored interior, the central five bays form the main hall (jeongdang), its roof set one level higher than that of the wing rooms (ikjil) on either side, each three bays wide and made up of an ondol room, a wooden-floored hall, and a narrow veranda. In the main hall, a tablet representing the king was originally enshrined, and on the first and fifteenth days of each lunar month officials bowed in the direction of the royal palace; the wing rooms on either side served as lodgings for receiving envoys or honoured guests. The building well preserves the typical form of a Joseon-period guest house.

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Where it is

Region

Andong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산