About this place
Gyoam is a mission station in the Yeongbuk District of the Diocese of Chuncheon under the pastoral care of Ganseong Parish. The official diocesan registry lists it by the name “Gyoam,” and it serves as a place where Catholics in the Gyoam area of Toseong-myeon, Goseong, remain connected with their parish and continue their communal life of faith.
Because a mission station is a local community operating within the pastoral care of a parish rather than an independent parish, Gyoam is best understood within the history and pastoral territory of Ganseong Parish. Diocesan records also note that Ganseong Parish worked on rebuilding the Gyoam mission station, showing that the place has remained within an ongoing pastoral structure serving small Catholic communities in the Yeongbuk region.
History & origins
The official mission-station records of the Diocese of Chuncheon date the establishment of Gyoam Mission Station to September 1954. Public diocesan sources do not provide enough detail to reconstruct the number of Catholics or the building process at the time of foundation, but they do confirm that in the postwar period the Gyoam community was organized as a mission station connected with Ganseong Parish.
The mission-station building and community were subsequently maintained within the pastoral care of Ganseong Parish. The history of the parish records that, after constructing a new parish church, it also undertook work such as rebuilding Gyoam Mission Station in order to strengthen local evangelization and pastoral care. The source does not provide the precise year of that rebuilding, so it cannot be stated more specifically, but the record does show that Gyoam continued to be maintained as a place for the local Catholic community after its establishment.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2015
- Total floor area: 69㎡
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