About this place
Gwandong Mission Station is a Catholic mission station of the Diocese of Masan in the Gwandong area of Hamyang-eup, Hamyang-gun. The current Catholic directory lists “Gwandong” as a mission station of the diocese. As a place where a small local Catholic community can gather and continue its faith close to everyday life, it can be understood as one part of the wider rural pastoral network of the Hamyang area.
The significance of a mission station lies less in its size than in accessibility and community. For Catholics who live far from a parish church, it provides a nearby place where the local faith community can gather and where the Church remains present in daily life. Public official sources currently do not provide enough information to verify Gwandong's mother parish, regular liturgical arrangements, or foundation history, so such potentially changing details are omitted here.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1961
- Total floor area: 39㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Masan Diocese (Diocese of Masan)
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