Contents

Heijō Shrine

1913–1945 Shinto shrine in Pyongyang

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (May 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepLorGoogle Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,131 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:平壌神社]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|平壌神社}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Heijō Shrine
The shrine (date unknown)
Religion
Affiliation	Shinto
Deity	Kunitama Okami Amaterasu Okami
Location
Location	Pyongyang, Korea, Empire of Japan
Geographic coordinates	39°02′07″N 125°45′19″E / 39.03534°N 125.7552°E / 39.03534; 125.7552
Architecture
Completed	1913
Demolished	August 16, 1945
Glossary of Shinto

Heijō Shrine (Japanese: 平壌神社, Hepburn: Heijō jinja, Korean: 평양신사) was a Shinto shrine in Pyongyang, Korea during the Japanese colonial period. It was established in 1913^[1] and destroyed in 1945.^[2]

Its name derived from the Japanese name for Pyongyang during its occupation of Korea. The shrine's main annual festival was held on October 2. It was formerly a national shrine of the third rank (国幣小社, kokuhei-shōsha) in the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines.^{[citation needed]}

The shrine was destroyed on August 16, 1945: just after Japan first announced its surrender in World War II. That day, local Koreans set fire to the shrine and destroyed it. Hundreds of similar cases arose throughout the peninsula in the following week.^[2]

In modern times, the site is a park, with a statue of Kim Il Sung built at the site of the shrine's building.

Gallery[edit]

Side of the shrine (1942)

Another view of the shrine

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Historical page with photographs
• Overseas shrines database

This article relating to Shinto is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article related to religion in Korea is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.