Jegidonghaepungbuwongunyuntaegyeong Ritual House

This is a house built by Yun Taek-yeong, Buwongun of Haepung, father-in-law of Emperor Sunjong of Joseon. The building now standing here originally stood in Jegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, and was moved to this site in 1996 when Namsangol Park was created. The shrine behind the house is a reconstruction of a building destroyed by fire during the April 19 Revolution of 1960. The complex consists of a main hall, a servants' quarters (haengnangchae) and a shrine, in a floor plan rarely seen in Korea. The plan is arranged in the shape of the Chinese character 元 (won, meaning "foremost"), with the shrine set at the very top, the main hall below it, a main gate in front of the main hall, and the servants' quarters beside the gate. The main hall contains a kitchen, an inner room, a main wooden-floored hall (daecheong), a room across the hall, and a raised pavilion-style floor (nu-maru), while the shrine is a single-bay building set two steps higher than the main hall. It is said that the shrine was built using timber taken from a building within Gyeongungung Palace where the king had once performed ancestral rites, salvaged by Yun Deok-yeong when he demolished the palace. On the whole, this is a traditional house built less for everyday living and more in keeping with the atmosphere of a ritual house.

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Where it is

Region

Jung-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산