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About this place
Jumunjin Church is the church of Jumunjin Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in the Yeongdong District of the Diocese of Chuncheon. The diocese identifies Our Lady of Lourdes as the parish patron and shows that the parish serves a network linking the Jumunjin area with the Haengjeong, Samsan, and Ingu mission-station communities. An important feature of this place is that the parish church and several outlying communities together form one pastoral and faith community.
Located in the coastal port region of the East Sea, Jumunjin Parish is a center where local Catholics gather for Mass, the sacraments, and community life. It also connects Catholics living in more distant farming and fishing villages with the parish through their mission stations. Visitors can therefore understand the church not simply as a single building, but as the pastoral center that links the parish and mission-station communities of Jumunjin and the surrounding area.
History & origins
The origins of Jumunjin Parish go back to November 23, 1923, when Father Yi Cheol-yeon, who had been ministering in Geumgwang-ri, moved his pastoral base to Jumunjin in order to expand evangelization. The parish was transferred to the newly developing port of Jumunjin, but amid the growth of Gangneung and other circumstances, the community did not immediately establish a stable footing.
In January 1929 the church was destroyed by fire. Father Kim In-sang moved to Gangneung, and Jumunjin was reduced for a time to a mission station. During the Korean War, a priest was assigned again in November 1951 and the community was restored as a parish. In January 1955 Mass began to be celebrated in a new church building. This was the period in which the Jumunjin community rebuilt its parish structure despite war and regional change.
From September 3, 1967, the Order of Friars Minor was entrusted with the pastoral care of the parish and served it for about thirty years. On September 3, 1997, pastoral responsibility was returned to the Diocese of Chuncheon. In August 2002 Typhoon Rusa seriously damaged the church, but priests, religious, and lay faithful worked together in its restoration and rebuilding. The present church thus carries the memory of a parish that endured fire, war, religious-order ministry, natural disaster, and reconstruction.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2004
- Total floor area: 64㎡
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Chuncheon Diocese (Diocese of Chuncheon)
Official website: http://www.cccatholic.or.kr
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