Jeonuihyanggyo Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local educational institution established by the state to hold memorial rites for Confucius and other sages and to educate and edify the local populace. It is not known exactly when Jeonuihyanggyo was first built, but it is presumed to have been founded between 1407 and 1413, the seventh to thirteenth years of King Taejong of Joseon, when hyanggyo were being established in counties and districts across the country in the early Joseon period. It originally stood in Donggyo-ri, but as the site was too cramped to properly enshrine additional sages or conduct rites according to due form, it was relocated to the south of the county seat in 1649 by the magistrate Yi Chang-yun. However, in 1684, the eighth year of King Sukjong, when Yulgok Yi I and Ugye Seong Hon were additionally enshrined, the building again proved too small, and it was relocated once more to its present site. The buildings are arranged in the jeonhak-humyo layout, with the educational space, Myeongnyundang lecture hall, at the front, and, beyond the inner gate, Naesammun, behind it, the ritual space, Daeseongjeon shrine hall. Myeongnyundang, the lecture hall where students gathered to study, measures five kan (bays) across the front and two kan on the side. Daeseongjeon measures five kan across the front and four kan on the side, and is roofed with a matbae (gabled) roof that, seen from the side, forms the shape of the character 人 (person). Inside are enshrined the spirit tablets of Confucius and other sages of China and Korea.

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Sejong

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물