Grand People's Study House

The Great Study Hall of the People (also Great People's Study House ) is the central library in North Korea's capital Pyongyang. It is located on Namsan hill at Kim Il-sung Square, on the bank of the Taedong - gang.

Architecture

The monumental structure was conceived to mark the 70th birthday of Kim Il -sung in 1981 in a traditional Korean style and built in a period of 21 months. He has 34 roofs. The building was officially opened on 1 April 1983.

About ten floors and a total area of ​​100,000 square meters, extending 600 rooms, including 15 reading rooms, 14 auditoriums, several offices, study and service rooms. It can accommodate about 30 million books and 12,000 daily visitors. Publications from abroad are accessible only with special permission. A special feature is the automatic distribution system that can be used with which books on a database from the catalog space transported to the reader.

Importance

The Great Study Hall of the People is the center of the Juche ideology. It serves as a national library and community college.

Pyongyang should be connected to a nationwide intranet that connects mainly government agencies and ministries. In the Great Hall of the People study Western visitors may observe how students chatting about this intranet. To what extent his civilian use beyond is possible is unknown.

The building is characterized as a motif on the 1 -Won coin and imaged onto the back of the 5 -Won - certificate from 1992.