Sunchanggaeksa Temple

Sunchanggaeksa is a government building of the late Joseon period, built in 1759, the thirty-fifth year of King Yeongjo. It originally comprised a central main hall (jeongdang) with a western hall to its left and an eastern hall to its right, an inner and outer gate at the front, and a row of side rooms along the side, but today only the main hall and the eastern hall survive. In the main hall a gwolpae — a wooden tablet inscribed "Long live His Majesty the King" — was enshrined, and on the first and fifteenth day of every month, as well as on occasions of state affairs, officials bowed facing the royal palace. Newly appointed magistrates were required to hold their inaugural rites here, and officials sent down from the central government stayed here when visiting the district. When the Eulsa Treaty was concluded in 1905, the ninth year of the Gwangmu era, this was also the place where Choe Ik-hyeon, known by his pen name Myeonam, raised a righteous army and fought. The main hall measures three bays across the front and three bays to the side; it is a paljak-roofed building — a hipped-and-gabled roof shaped like the character 八 — with a brick floor inside where the gwolpae is enshrined. The eastern hall is a paljak-roofed building measuring five bays across the front and two bays to the side.

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Where it is

Region

Sunchang, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산