Gimhae Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is an educational institution built by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction to local people. It is not known when Gimhae Hyanggyo was first built, but according to the Gimhae-eupji (Gazetteer of Gimhae) it originally stood in Dajeon-dong, east of the old Gimhae-bu. Later, when the hill on which the school stood collapsed, it was moved to its present location in 1688, the fourteenth year of King Sukjong. The overall layout has the lecture hall, Myeongnyundang, at the front, and the shrine, Daeseongjeon, together with the east and west seomu, at the rear, following the typical hyanggyo arrangement of school in front and shrine behind, similar to the layout of most hyanggyo. The main gate, Punghwaru, is unusual in that it was built not as a two-storey pavilion but as a single-storey building with a hipped-and-gabled roof shaped like the character 八 (eight). In the Joseon period the school received land, books, and servants from the state and used them to teach students, but today it holds only memorial rites. Gimhae Hyanggyo preserves material useful for research into the local history of the Gimhae region.

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Where it is

Region

Gimhae, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산