Sangsangwan Hall, Sangju

This is the Guest House (Gaeksa) of Sangju-mok in the Joseon dynasty, where a gwolpae, a tablet symbolising the king, was enshrined and rites held on the first and fifteenth of each month, and where envoys sent from the central government stayed. The building was first constructed in the Goryeo period and was rebuilt after a fire in 1526, the twenty-first year of King Jungjong of Joseon. It burned down again, however, during the Japanese invasions of 1592, and was rebuilt in 1606, the thirty-ninth year of King Seonjo. Its original site was where Sangju Police Station now stands in Dongseong-dong, but it was relocated in 1940 and used as classrooms for Sangju Girls' Middle School, before being moved again to Mansan-dong. The main hall stands at the centre, flanked on either side by the Dongikheon and Seoikheon wings. The main hall is three bays wide and three bays deep, with a matbae, or gabled, roof whose side profile forms the shape of the character 人 (person). The Dongikheon is seven bays wide and three bays deep; the roof facing the main hall is a matbae roof like the main hall's, while its eastern side has a paljak, or hip-and-gable, roof whose profile forms the shape of the character 八 (eight). The Seoikheon is four bays wide and three bays deep, and like the Dongikheon has a matbae roof on the side facing the main hall and a paljak roof to the west. Sangsangwan in Sangju is the largest surviving building of its kind in the southern region.

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Region

Sangju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산