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Sinsa Peter Catholic Church is a parish of the Gwanak District of the Archdiocese of Seoul, serving Catholics in the Sillim-dong and Sinsa-dong living area of Gwanak-gu. Today's parish continues a community that began in 1983 as the Sillim 4-dong mission station and was elevated to an independent parish in 1990. Its present name highlights its patron, St. Peter the Apostle. Located near Gwancheon-ro, the church is a neighborhood center for Mass, the sacraments, catechesis, small communities, devotional life, and service.
A defining feature of the parish is its gradual growth from a small mission community to a full parish. It began under Sillim-dong Parish, later came under Nangok-dong Parish, secured land and a building at the present location, and then became independent. Additional property was acquired as the community prepared for a permanent church. The later use of the name “Sinsa Peter” clarified both the local identity and its patron while preserving continuity with the former Sillim 4-dong Parish. The church therefore embodies several decades of Catholic community life in the Sillim–Sinsa area and continues local worship and fellowship in the apostolic spirit of St. Peter.
History & origins
The roots of Sinsa Peter Catholic Church go back to May 1, 1983, when the Sillim 4-dong mission station opened under Sillim-dong Parish. The parish history preserved by Seoul Archdiocese GoodNews explicitly identifies this date as the opening of the mission station. The community was created so Catholics in Sillim 4-dong could attend Mass and receive formation closer to home. In April 1988 it purchased land and a building at the present site, and in September of that year its jurisdiction was transferred from Sillim-dong Parish to Nangok-dong Parish, while the community itself continued without interruption.
On August 22, 1990, the Archdiocese of Seoul elevated the Sillim 4-dong mission station of Nangok-dong Parish to an independent parish. The former mission community thus acquired the full liturgical and pastoral organization of a parish. In subsequent years parishioners acquired neighboring properties for a larger church site, and in 1995 a building subcommittee was organized to advance plans for a new church. The chronology therefore needs to distinguish clearly between 1983, when the mission station opened, and 1990, when it was elevated to parish status.
For many years the parish served the area under the name Sillim 4-dong Catholic Church and later came to use the present name Sinsa Peter Catholic Church. The change did not sever the community's history; it expressed the same parish's continuing identity more clearly through its local name and patron, St. Peter. Today's parish is the result of a sequence of mission opening, land acquisition, jurisdictional change, parish elevation, and preparation for a permanent church. Remembering the mission years together with the parish years emphasizes that the current community was built gradually rather than created all at once, and that continuity remains part of its identity.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 3 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2003
- Total floor area: 2,792㎡
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