Jeonjuryussihoamjaesa Temple

This jaesil, an ancestral ritual hall, was built to guard the grave of Ryu Geuk-seo, the second-generation ancestor of the Jeonju Ryu clan, and to hold memorial rites there. Oral tradition holds that it was originally a building of Seongcheonsa, a Silla-period temple, and the clan estimates that the jaesil was built sometime during the reign of King Seonjo, in the 1500s; however, the building's style overall corresponds to the nineteenth century or later. The building sits at the foot of a low hill at the top end of a valley of fields and paddies, with its back to the hill and facing west. In front, the gatehouse and the left and right wing buildings join to form a U-shaped annexe wrapping a rear courtyard, while behind it stands a straight-line main building, giving the complex as a whole an open-sided, roughly square layout. The main building is five bays across the front and one bay deep, with a single-eaved gable roof. From left to right it comprises one bay of suimbang, a room for the officiating ritual leader, two bays of daecheong, a wooden-floored hall, and two bays of jegwanbang, rooms for attending descendants. The daecheong is open at the front, with a pair of batten-panel doors at the rear, and single lattice-panel doors between the daecheong and the ondol-heated rooms on either side. The annexe has a gate set in the central bay of its five-bay front; to its left are one bay of storeroom and one bay of kitchen, and to its right two bays of yusabang, a room for the clan official managing the rites. The kitchen runs through two bays front to back, behind which two bays of caretaker's room continue to form the left wing; behind the right-hand bay of the yusabang, one bay of stable, one bay of passage gate, and one bay of hall for preparing ritual food continue in turn to form the right wing, with a storage loft above the stable. Hoam Jaesa of the Jeonju Ryu clan is one of the house-type jaesil buildings that have mainly appeared in the northern Gyeongbuk region since the nineteenth century. Although it shows no outstanding features of structural style, its floor plan and construction have survived intact, clearly illustrating one type of nineteenth-century jaesil, which gives it its value.

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Where it is

Region

Andong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료