About this place
Gwansan Mission Station is a Catholic mission community in Gwansan-eup, Jangheung County, in the southwestern area of the Archdiocese of Gwangju, and belongs to Daedeok Parish. The archdiocese's official record gives September 1, 1969 as its establishment date and confirms the same address as the package, with Gwansan-eup as its pastoral area.
A mission station is a place where local Catholics sustain communal faith under the pastoral care of a mother parish. Gwansan has served since the late 1960s as a local center through which Catholics in southern Jangheung remain connected with Daedeok Parish and continue a shared life of prayer and faith.
The site is therefore best understood not as an independent parish church, but as the faith space of a local community belonging to Daedeok Parish. Its essential character lies in the role of a mission station in maintaining Catholic communal life at a distance from the parish center.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2021
- Total floor area: 298㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Gwangju Archdiocese (Archdiocese of Gwangju)
Official website: https://www.gjcatholic.or.kr/
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