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About this place
Byeondong Catholic Church is a parish of the Catholic Diocese of Daejeon in the Daejeon South District. Its current pastoral territory centers on Byeondong in Seo-gu and includes parts of Doma 1-dong and Doma 2-dong, as stated in the diocesan parish directory.
The parish serves as the ordinary center of Catholic life for people in its territory, where Mass and the sacraments are celebrated and catechesis and community activities continue. Its significance is not simply that a church building stands within an administrative neighborhood, but that a defined local community is entrusted to it within the pastoral structure of the diocese.
Visitors can therefore understand Byeondong Catholic Church both as a church building with distinctive architectural character and as the local parish that sustains the everyday faith life of Catholics in Byeondong and parts of nearby Doma-dong.
History & origins
Byeondong Parish was established in 1986 when it was separated from Doma-dong Parish. As residential areas in Seo-gu, Daejeon expanded and the Catholic community grew, part of the older parish territory was reorganized to form a separate parish community.
After the parish was established, work proceeded toward a permanent church, and the present building was completed in 1992. The church is characterized by red brickwork and vertical wall masses of varying heights that have been interpreted as evoking hands raised in prayer. Controlled natural light enters between projecting walls, while the relatively short distance between altar and congregation was designed to reinforce a sense of liturgical unity.
The bent exterior stairway, the second-floor plaza, and the movement from the plaza into the worship space are also distinctive elements. On a limited site, the design combines vertical walls, red brick, and carefully introduced light to address both religious symbolism and the practical needs of worship.
The history of Byeondong Catholic Church can therefore be read not only as a story of parish division and church construction, but also as the way a new Catholic community gave lasting architectural form to its liturgical life.
Korean Catholic Places Encyclopedia
Byeondong Catholic Church: history and architecture
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 4 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1993
- Total floor area: 2,973㎡
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Daejeon Diocese (Diocese of Daejeon)
Official website: http://www.djcatholic.or.kr
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