Jukjeon Mission

About this place

Jukjeon Mission Station belongs to Songhyeon-dong Parish in the Diocese of Andong and is closely connected with Gyemyeong Village in Pungsan-eup, Andong. The Catholic Directory of Korea lists Jukjeon as a current mission station under Songhyeon-dong Parish, while the Catholic Social Welfare Association of the Diocese of Andong identifies Gyemyeong Village as one of the diocese's Hansen's disease settlement communities and explicitly names Jukjeon as its mission station. This gives the place a distinctive character: unlike an ordinary rural mission station, it stands at the intersection of the lived history of a Hansen settlement and the Church's social ministry.

The mission station provides residents of Gyemyeong Village with a nearby place for prayer and Catholic liturgical life, while also carrying the memory of a community that built a new home amid illness and social prejudice. The fact that the diocesan social welfare organization continues to present Gyemyeong Village and Jukjeon Mission Station together shows that this relationship is not merely an old anecdote but central to understanding the place. Visitors should therefore see Jukjeon both as a mission station under Songhyeon-dong Parish and as one site in the Diocese of Andong's long social-pastoral relationship with Hansen settlement communities.