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Iksan Mission Station is a Catholic mission community under Sangsamrye Parish in the Diocese of Jeonju, located in Wanggung-myeon, Iksan. The current diocesan list identifies “Iksan” as a mission station of Sangsamrye Parish and gives the same location as the package. It exists as a small church community where Catholics living away from the parish center in the Wanggung area can gather for prayer and continue their sacramental and liturgical life.
A diocesan feature on the mission station describes parishioners who have long prepared the liturgy, shared community meals, and cared for the mission church. Although it is a small rural community with many elderly members, the mission station has served as a point of connection between the parish and the local area. More important than changeable details such as current Mass schedules is its continuing identity as a Catholic community in Wanggung-myeon linked to Sangsamrye Parish.
History & origins
Iksan Mission Station was established in April 1974 in Wanggung-myeon. A Diocese of Jeonju feature describes it as a mission community under Sangsamrye Parish and shows how it became a center of Catholic life in a rural area surrounded by farmland and livestock facilities. From its early years, local Catholics prepared Mass together, shared liturgical ministries, and sustained the community at the mission station.
The record also preserves memories that connect the mission station with the everyday history of the neighborhood. A parishioner interviewed in 2019 recalled moving to the area as a young adult and spending decades within the community, while one of her children belonged to the first graduating class of the mission station's kindergarten. Such memories show that the mission station once reached beyond worship alone into education and ordinary community life.
As urbanization and migration changed the countryside, the community gradually aged, yet Iksan Mission Station continued its Catholic life in connection with Sangsamrye Parish. Because the available authoritative material does not provide a complete architectural chronology, the historical significance is best expressed in the long continuity of worship, service, and fellowship maintained by local Catholics around this place since its establishment.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Total floor area: 430㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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