Nongongcheon Stream King Hall

A cheonwangdang, or King Hall, is a shrine dedicated to a village's guardian deity, where prayers are offered for the safety and prosperity of its residents. According to a report from the 1940s, in the area around Daegu a stone cairn altar was called a cheonwangdang street or gwicheonwang, and a shrine built on such a site was called a cheonwangdang. A 1982 report further states that in places such as Yeongcheon and Gyeongju a seonangdang (village guardian shrine) is called a cheonwangdang. The seonang faith was introduced from China in the Goryeo period, and because its religious function resembles that associated with the cheonwangdang, the two are sometimes thought to have merged. Thus in Daegu and the wider Gyeongsangbuk-do region a seonangdang is sometimes called a cheonwangdang, and in some places a seonghwangdang (Village Guardian Shrine). This King Hall was built to pray for the safety of the two villages of Nam-ri and Buk-ri in Nongong-eup, and stands on a hillside east of Nam-ri. Stone walls enclose its sides and rear, and old pine trees surround the site. The building originally stood at the entrance to the village (now around 680-1 Nam-ri), but was moved to its present site in 1924; a ridge-beam inscription records that it was first built in the ninth month of the third year of the Xianfeng reign (1853).

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Where it is

Region

Dalseong, Daegu

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산