Sangdaram, Pohang

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.2192

Category

Architecture

Era

조선시대

Designated year

2022

Location

포항시, 경상북도— 경상북도 포항시 남구 새마을로766번길 21 (연일읍)

Coordinates

36.039447, 129.287989Kakao address conversion

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Pohang Sangdal-am (Upper-Reach Hermitage) originated as a tomb-protection hermitage and memorial facility constructed in 1484 based on an earlier funerary chapel dedicated to Son So (1427-1495), a prominent early-Joseon literati official and ancestral founder of the Gyeongju Son clan's settlement in Yangdong village. The structure underwent repairs in 1595 and 1786, maintaining its form to the present. Sangdal-am displays an inverted-L-shaped floor plan with gable-roof configuration. The loft section (hwa-su-ru, literally "Flower Tree Pavilion") was added during the 1484 reconstruction, establishing the current architectural form. The distinctive architectural feature of overlaid roof composition (ga-jeok-jisang) dating to the reconstruction period carries significant scholarly value. The site provides important archaeological evidence of the historical transition whereby funerary memorial facilities evolved into Confucian ritual spaces, documented through both written records and structural remains. As a fifteenth-century tomb-protective shrine structure maintaining original architectural characteristics from the Joseon period, Sangdal-am possesses high historical and scholarly value, meriting designation as national-level heritage.

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