Jeoldusan Martyrs' Shrine

Also known as 절두산 순교성지

Year

1967

Architect

Lee Hee-tae

Type

building

Built on the cliff above the Han River where thousands of Korean Catholics were executed during the 1866 Byeongin Persecution, the Martyrs' Shrine is a raw concrete structure whose brutalist forms deliberately evoke the violence of the site …

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