Hwangnyongsa
Sign in to saveHwangnyongsa (), alternatively Hwangnyong Temple or Hwangryongsa, was a Buddhist temple in the city of Gyeongju, South Korea.
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- Hwangnyongsa
- Religious building.image
- A scale model of Hwangnyongsa pagoda.jpg
- Religious building.caption
- A miniature reconstruction of what the main pagoda may have once looked like. (1/10 scale)
- Religious building.completed
- 7th century
- Religious building.date_destroyed
- 1238
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Korean Buddhism
- Religious building.height_max
- (pagoda)
- Religious building.designation1
- WHS
- Religious building.designation1_parent
- Gyeongju Historic Areas
- Religious building.designation1_date
- 2000
- Religious building.designation1_number
- 976
- Religious building.designation2
- Historic Sites of South Korea
- Religious building.designation2_date
- 1963-01-21
- Religious building.designation2_offname
- Hwangnyongsa Temple Site, Gyeongju
- Religious building.designation2_number
- 6
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- ^황룡사
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 皇龍寺
- Korean name/auto.child
- yes
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Hwangnyongsa (), alternatively Hwangnyong Temple or Hwangryongsa, was a Buddhist temple in the city of Gyeongju, South Korea.
Completed in the 7th century, the enormous 9-story structure was built entirely with wood with interlocking design with no iron nails. It had a standing total height of 68 m (223 ft) or 80 m (262 ft), making it one of the tallest structures in East Asia at the time of its construction. Only the massive foundation stones of the temple remain in current times.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hwangnyongsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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