About this place
Hwanhak-dong Mission Station is a Catholic mission community at 1 Hwanhak-gil, Ilro-eup, Muan County, belonging to Ilro Parish in the Archdiocese of Gwangju. The archdiocese records its formal establishment date as December 8, 1913.
A centenary account in the Catholic Times traces the local faith community back to 1880, when Peter Seo Yong-ho and his wife moved to Hwanhak-dong and began Sunday prayer services in their home. Evangelization expanded from 1899, a mission chapel was built in 1913 under Sanjeong-dong Parish, and the mission was transferred to Ilro Parish in 1954.
Hwanhak-dong is therefore more than a local place of prayer: it preserves a Catholic tradition reaching back to the late nineteenth century and continues today as a mission community of Ilro Parish.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1975
- Total floor area: 304㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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