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Yongsang-dong Catholic Church is a parish of the Andong District in the Diocese of Andong and serves as the local center for Mass, the sacraments, catechesis, and parish life for Catholics in the Yongsang-dong area of Andong. It is listed as an independent parish in the diocesan record of parish foundations and has grown with the local Catholic community for more than half a century.
The parish has also connected liturgical and educational life with service to the wider neighborhood. In 2023, as it marked its fiftieth anniversary, the community supported a housing-improvement project for an elderly local resident, turning an anniversary celebration into an act of service. This reflects Yongsang-dong's identity both as a parish caring for the religious life of its members and as a Catholic community practicing solidarity within the wider city of Andong.
History & origins
Yongsang-dong Parish was established on August 21, 1973. The Diocese of Andong's parish-foundation list records its original name as Dongbu-dong, and a Catholic Times article on the fiftieth anniversary likewise reports that the community began in August 1973 as Dongbu-dong Parish within the Andong Culture Center. The new parish reflected the growth of Andong's urban area and changes in where Catholics were living, creating a new center for a distinct local community.
For about eighteen years the community continued under the name Dongbu-dong Parish. In January 1991 it moved to its present location and changed its name to Yongsang-dong Parish. The move and renaming were more than an administrative adjustment: they relocated the parish center into the living area of the Catholic community that had become established in Yongsang-dong.
In September 2023, Bishop John Chrysostom Kwon Hyok-ju presided at a Mass marking the parish's fiftieth anniversary, with former Bishop René Dupont also taking part in the celebration. The parish looked back on five decades of faith while linking the anniversary to service in the local community. Its history can thus be traced from its beginnings amid Andong's urban expansion in the 1970s, through the 1991 relocation and renaming, to its development as a parish rooted in Yongsang-dong.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 2 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1995
- Total floor area: 1,598㎡
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