Gyeonhwon Shrine, Sangju

Gyeonhwon Shrine is a modest building, but it has served as the ritual site for dongje, the village's communal tutelary rite, since the shrine was founded no later than the early 19th century. It stands as the focal point of a folk belief, both tangible and intangible, in which the dongje rite has been maintained down to the present. Moreover, although it has undergone change over time, it is a very rare case in which the shrine enshrines the spirit tablet of the Great King of Later Baekje and holds memorial rites for him, bound up with tales of Gyeonhwon that are still handed down in the surrounding area. As a small building of very simple structure, it is not easy to find distinctive points in its architectural composition. However, considering that, unusually for a shrine, its date of construction is clear, and that the configuration from its early construction is presumed to have been well preserved to the present, a certain significance can still be found. The shrine is also valuable as folk heritage precisely because it is bound up with King Gyeonhwon of Later Baekje and the rites held in his memory.

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Where it is

Region

Sangju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산