Mireuksa

Mireuksa was the largest Buddhist temple in the ancient state of Baekje within the Korean Peninsula. The temple turned into established in 602 by using King Mu and is positioned 36.012083 N, 127.031028 E, contemporary Iksan, and North Jeolla Province, South Korea. The website become excavated in 1980, disclosing many hitherto unknown records about Baekje structure. Mireuksaji Stone Pagoda is one of two extant Baekje pagodas. It is also the largest as well as being the various oldest of all Korean pagodas.

The legend of the introduction of Mireuksa is advised in the Samgungnyusa. King Mu and his queen had been said to have seen a imaginative and prescient of Maitreya at a pond on Yonghwasan. The King directly had the pond drained to establish the Mireuksa temple complicated. The 9-storey timber pagoda that when stood within the center of the complicated is said to were the paintings of Baekje grasp craftsman Abiji. Designated South Korean Historic Site No. A hundred and fifty, Mireuksa has been partly restored and now consists of a museum. On June 20, 2018 the second restoration of the Mireuksa pagoda became completed.