Flagpole Supports at Janguisa Temple Site, Seoul

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.235

Category

Architecture

Era

통일신라시대

Designated year

1963

Location

종로구, 서울특별시— 서울 종로구 세검정로9길 1 (신영동) / (지번)서울 종로구 신영동 218-9

Coordinates

37.602700, 126.961219

These two props for a flag pole face each other in an ancient Buddhist temple called the Janguisa Temple. Designed to use for putting up flags during religious ceremonies, the danggan, or flag pole, is supported by a pair of stone props known as dangganjiju. The Jangeuisa Temple is said to have been built in 659, 6th year of the reign of King Muyeol of Silla. Later, an elementary school took up the site and these banner pole support stand in the school yard. The stone props, scarcely decorated, have holes for fastening the flag pole. In most flag poles, the holes in the two supporting stones go all the way through. But this pole is somewhat unusual as only one of the supporting stones is pierced all the way through. As a whole, these banner pole props still maintain grandeur although simple with no special decoration. No records were found to show exactly when these were built, but historians believe that they are the works of the Unified Silla since they can be compared with those located in the Mangdeoksa Temple site.

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