Wongudan

Wongudan Altar, placed in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, changed into built in 1897 to serve as a site for the overall performance of the rite of heaven. The site became also recognized via different names, together with Hwangudan, Jecheondan and Wondan. Wongudan changed into specified South Korea's Historic Site No. 157 on July 15, 1967. The Rite of Heaven was done all through the pre-Three Kingdoms length. During the Goryeo Dynasty, King Seongjong changed into the first of the Goryeo kings to carry out the ceremony, designed to make sure a bountiful harvest. King Seongjong standardized the Wonguje rituals.

During the Goryeo Dynasty, the exercise becomes abolished. King Sejo of Joseon in short restarted the rite but stopped the practice in the 10th 1 year of his reign in 1464. The ritual become restarted once more whilst King Gojong proclaimed the Korean Empire in 1897, however it become in the end abolished with the aid of the Japanese colonial authorities in 1910. The Gocheonje ritual changed into revived in 2002 with the goal of annual performance as a revival of Korean cultural heritage.