Sangwang Mission Station

About this place

Sanggwang Mission Station belongs to Dain Parish in the Diocese of Andong and is located in Dain-myeon, Uiseong. The diocese’s current mission-station page lists it under Dain Parish and identifies it as an active community in which communal prayer and mission Masses continue. It serves the characteristic role of a rural mission station, enabling Catholics without a resident priest to maintain liturgical life in connection with their parish.

Oral testimony collected by the diocese shows that the Sanggwang community has continued its Catholic life through changes of parish jurisdiction over many years, and that the present mission building was created and maintained with support from the faithful and the diocese. The sources, however, disagree on the year of foundation. Its current identity and function are clear, but the earliest phase of its history requires further documentary verification. Recent diocesan material confirms that communal prayer and mission Masses continue at Sanggwang, while elderly Catholics’ testimony preserves memories of walking long distances to parish churches and passing through several changes of jurisdiction. These memories show that Sanggwang is not merely an administrative unit, but a community that has sustained Catholic life for a long time within a wide rural pastoral territory.