Gyeongjuhyanggyo Myeongnyundang Hall

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.2097

Category

Architecture

Era

조선시대(1614년 중건)

Designated year

2020

Location

경주시, 경상북도— 경상북도 경주시 교촌안길 27-20 (교동, 경주향교)

Coordinates

35.831560, 129.216862

Myeongryundang Lecture Hall of the Gyeongjuhyanggyo Local Confucian School was remodeled in 1614 and repaired in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a 5 kan* by 3 kan structure with a gable roof, with two high columns and a truss of five crossbeams. It is the largest remaining building of its kind, excluding guesthouse-type halls such as Seonggyungwan and Naju Hyanggyo Myeongryundang. The surviving records on the building include a record about its repair. The hall displays some of the characteristic features of seventeenth-century Joseon architecture, including its trimmed foundation stones and cornerstones, the vine pattern engraved on the bird wing-shaped brackets supporting the eaves, and the composition of the roof structure. Its size and class correspond to Daeseongjeon Hall (where sacrificial rites were performed for Confucius and the great Confucian scholars; Treasure No. 1727) of the same Confucian school.

Location