The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul
Sajikdan Altar
A Joseon capital needed two things west and east of the palace: an ancestral shrine and this earth altar. Most visitors only know one. I show both.
The state altar to the gods of land and grain, built in 1395 as the ritual twin of the royal shrine — the other half of what made a Joseon capital legitimate.
— Hayoon, The Historian
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