Daeungjeon Hall of Anjeongsa Temple, Tongyeong

Anjeongsa Temple, at the foot of Byeokbangsan Mountain, is said to have been first built by the monk Wonhyo in 654, the first year of King Muyeol of Silla. It burned down during the Imjin War and was rebuilt in 1751, the twenty-seventh year of King Yeongjo of Joseon, at which time Daeungjeon Hall was also rebuilt; it has since undergone repairs on several occasions and survives to the present. Daeungjeon Hall at Anjeongsa Temple measures three bays across the front and three bays to the side, and is a lavishly decorated building with a hipped-and-gabled roof whose sides form the shape of the character 八 (eight). It is a dapo-style building, in which bracket sets that both support the roof and serve as decoration are placed above the columns as well as between them, with two bracket clusters arranged in each bay between the columns. Its richly coloured brackets, painted in dancheong, well illustrate the general tendency of late dapo-style architecture. Inside is enshrined a triad of Buddha statues made in 1358, the seventh year of King Gongmin of Goryeo. Daeungjeon Hall of Anjeongsa Temple is a typical example of a Joseon-period main worship hall.

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Tongyeong, Gyeongnam

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Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산