Sogwangsa

Sogwangsa
Sogwang Temple in the 1930s
Korean name
Hangul	석왕사
Hanja	釋王寺
RR	Seogwangsa
MR	Sŏgwangsa

Sŏgwangsa (Korean: 석왕사) is a Korean Buddhist temple located in Sŏlbong-ri in Kosan County, Kangwon Province, North Korea. Once one of Korea's largest Buddhist temples, the complex was mostly destroyed by US bombing in 1951 and is in ruins. It is listed as National Treasure #94

See also

• National Treasures of North Korea
• Korean Buddhism
• Korean architecture

References

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External links

• Media related to Sogwangsa at Wikimedia Commons