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ID: 7059172
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7059172
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chong-myo (shrine)  Chong-myo (shrine)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 33 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.5500  decimal degrees
Long: 126 59 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 126.9830  decimal degrees

Note: Confucian royal shrine of the Yi clan, founders of the Choson Dynasty; first constructed in 1395; destroyed and rebuilt in the early 17th century; annual rites to the ancestors continue to be preformed to present day; named UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.

Names:
Chong-myo (preferred,C,V)
Chongmyo (C,V)
Jongmyo (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Han'guk (nation)  ........  Han'guk (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Seoul (special city)  ............  Seoul (special city) (P)
Hierarchy of Seoul (inhabited place)  ................  Seoul (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Chong-myo (shrine)  ....................  Chong-myo (shrine) (P)

Place Types:
shrine (preferred, C)
World Heritage Site (C)  ............  since 1995

Sources and Contributors:
Chongmyo..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Pratt et al., Korea Historical Dictionary (1999) 31
Chong-myo..........  [VP]
....................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 22 July 2010
Jongmyo..........  [VP]
.................  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 22 July 2010
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 22 July 2010
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Pratt et al., Korea Historical Dictionary (1999) 61
..........  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 22 July 2010

 

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