Yeongi Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local Confucian school established by the state to hold sacrificial rites for Confucius and other sages, and to educate and morally instruct the local people. The exact date of the founding of Yeongi Local Confucian School is not known, but it is presumed to have been built between 1407 and 1413, the seventh to thirteenth years of King Taejong, when hyanggyo were being established in counties and prefectures across the country at the start of the Joseon dynasty. The present school was relocated to its current site in 1647, the twenty-fifth year of King Injo. The surviving buildings include Daeseongjeon (the main shrine hall), Myeongnyundang (the lecture hall), Jegigo (the ritual-vessel storehouse), Jeonsacheong (the hall for preparing sacrificial offerings), Naesammun (the inner three-bay gate) and Donghyeopmun (the east side gate). Inside Daeseongjeon, the hall where the rites are performed, spirit tablets are enshrined for Confucius, the Four Sages and the Four Wise Men, together with eighteen Korean sages.

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Where it is

Region

Sejong

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물