About this place
The Jesuit house at 11-8 Seogangdae-gil is registered in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea directory as “Arrupe Community.” Located in Sinsu-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, it is a male religious community near the area that also contains the Korean Province headquarters and Sogang University.
Bearing the name Arrupe, this community is one of the houses supporting common Jesuit life in Seoul. As the Korean Province today emphasizes the Spiritual Exercises and discernment, accompaniment of poor and excluded people, walking with young people, and care for our common home, the house can be understood as a residential base for members engaged in those apostolic commitments.
History & origins
Arrupe Community was established as the Jesuits in Korea expanded their communities in Seoul after developing into an independent region. The Korean Province chronology published by the Sogang University Alumni Association records that Arrupe Community was founded in Mapo, Seoul, in 1999.
The same chronology notes that the headquarters of the Korean Jesuit region and a vocation-support building were newly constructed in Mapo that year, showing how the area was becoming an important center of Jesuit organization and community life in Korea.
The current Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea directory lists Arrupe Community at 11-8 Seogangdae-gil, Mapo-gu. The 1999 record of its establishment in Mapo and the present Sinsu-dong address therefore identify it as a Jesuit community with continuity in the Mapo area since the late 1990s.
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