Seongsan Prayer House

About this place

Seonggeosan House of Prayer is a retreat and prayer facility of the Order of Friars Minor in the Diocese of Daejeon area. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea lists a facility at the same address as “Seonggeosan Retreat House” and explicitly identifies the Friars Minor as the religious order responsible for it, confirming that it is the same place as the “Seonggeosan House of Prayer” in this package.

Its primary role is not to exercise territorial pastoral responsibility like a parish but to provide a place where individuals and groups can step away from ordinary routines and focus on prayer and retreat. Because it is a retreat ministry connected with a Franciscan community living the spirituality of the Friars Minor, visitors should understand it less as an ordinary church organized around a parish Mass schedule and more as a place for prayer, contemplation, and spiritual renewal. It is a religious-order apostolate designed for quiet retreat in the natural surroundings of Seonggeosan.