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143 Gwangju Speer Girls’ High School
144 Gwangju Jeil Church
/ Soongil High School

Speer Girls’ High School: 13 Baekseo-ro, Nam-gu, Gwangju3 http://www.speer.hs.kr 56 Sangmugongwon-ro, Seo-gu, Gwangju-si
http://www.first.or.kr
Soongil High School: 40 Moryongdae-gil, Buk-gu, Gwangju http://soongil.gen.hs.kr
100th anniversary monument of the church

“It is the first church in Gwangju with a deep-rooted history and has
grown along with the modern and contemporary history of Gwangju and has
played an important role in the Protestant Church in Gwangju.”

Gwangju Jeil Church began Gwangju Jeil Church
on December 25, 1904, with
missionary Owen’s family
and Koreans having their
first service at the Missionary
Bell’s House in Yangnim-
Gwangju Speer Girls’ High School Speer Hall, registered To become stars of history
cultural heritage No. 158 (monument to 23 patriots from dong, Gwangju. Gwangju Jeil
Speer Girls’ High School) Church, which was the base
of missionary work in the
inland area of Jeollanam-do,
“A three-story gray-brick building called moved into the north gate to
Speer Hall was constructed with Mrs. Sterns’ worship as the number of church members Independence Movement in Tokyo, Japan,
donations of $5,000 to commemorate her increased. In April 1909, missionary Owen and prepared for the movement in Gwangju.
sister, Jennie Speer who died young. Since suddenly collapsed due to a high fever during They gathered at the house of Namgung
then, the school name has been called missionary work in a rural area of Jangheung, Hyuk, the elders of Geumjeong Church
Jennie Speer Memorial School for Girls.” was transferred to Gwangju but died. His and the superintendent of Soongil School,
Gwangju Soongil Middle and High School
body was buried in Missionary Graveyard in to prepare for the recruiting people, the
Yangnim-dong. Gwangju Jeil Church was the Declaration of Independence, and the
Gwangju Soongil High School and Gwangju Speer Girls’ High School were established in leader of the independence movement on Taegeukgi, and on March 10, more than
1908 by Eugene Bell, a missionary from Presbyterian Church in the United States. For boys, March 1, 1919, so the Japanese confiscated 1,000 people from Soongil School, Speer
missionary Eugene Bell was the first principal, and Miss Ella Graham was appointed as the the chapel and the church moved to Geum- Girls’ High School, and ordinary citizens
first principal of the girls’ school. In commemoration of the life of Jennie Speer, who died dong, and it was called Geumjeong Church. gathered to shout for the independence.
young, Mrs. Sterns from the United States donated $5,000 and with the fund, a three-story As the number of church members continued
gray brick building called Speer Hall was completed in 1911. Since then, the school has to increase, the church was separated into the
been named “Jennie Speer Memorial School for Girls.” Church outside the north gate (Gwangju Joongang
On March 19, 1919, all students participated in the independence movement, and 23 Church) in 1922 and Yangnim Church in 1924.
people, including 2 teachers and 21 students, were imprisoned. On November 1, 1929, In the Gwangju March 1st Movement, Choi
students participated Gwangju Student Independence Movement. In 1937, the school Won-soon and Jeong Gwang-ho who studied
refused to visit the Shinto shrine and had to be closed. Soongil High School in Gwangju in Japan and returned home, met with Choi The monument to the relocation of
took the lead in the March 1st Movement in Gwangju, where many students and teachers Heung-jong and Kim Cheol in Gwangju, Gwangju Jeil Church, the mother
church of Gwangju
were imprisoned for this, and a student, Song Kwang-chun, died at Daegu Prison. explained in detail about the February 8th