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Yongmun Mission Station is a Catholic mission station of Yecheon Parish in the Diocese of Andong, located in Geumdangsil Village, Yongmun-myeon, Yecheon. The official diocesan page identifies it as a mission station of Yecheon Parish and records April 11, 1960, as its establishment date. Set within a traditional rural village, it provides a nearby center where Catholics living at a distance from the parish church can gather for prayer and continue their liturgical life.
Yongmun is also notable as a place where religious space intersects with the social and economic history of a rural community. Local reporting has highlighted how the mission-station building and surrounding community developed alongside village economic activity, including sericulture, and has discussed the site in connection with Gyeongsangbuk-do's industrial heritage. The mission station therefore preserves both the function of a small Catholic chapel and the memory of a rural community in which faith and everyday livelihood were closely intertwined.
History & origins
According to the official Diocese of Andong page, Yongmun Mission Station was established on April 11, 1960. The Catholic Directory of Korea records the same date. The mission station was created so that Catholics in a rural area under Yecheon Parish could maintain communal faith without always traveling a long distance to the parish church, and it became a local Catholic center within Geumdangsil Village.
A Maeil Shinmun report on industrial heritage states that Fr. Roger No Gwang-myeong helped establish the mission-station building and describes how the Catholic community developed alongside a local economic community centered on sericulture. The mission station was therefore not only a liturgical space but also a place closely connected to the cooperative life and work of rural residents, a characteristic that led to attention within Gyeongsangbuk-do's industrial-heritage framework.
The Diocese of Andong's mission-station interviews remember a time when many students and families participated actively, followed by a sharp decline as rural depopulation and migration to cities reduced the local Catholic population. At the same time, newcomers returning to rural life have prevented the community from disappearing altogether. Yongmun's history brings together the expansion of rural Catholic mission in the 1960s, village production and cooperation, and the later demographic changes that transformed rural Korea.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1962
- Total floor area: 79㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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