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Ganggyeong Bugok Methodist Church was originally a chapel of an
Evangelical Holiness Church. The reason why the chapel of the Evangelical
Holiness Church became the chapel of the Methodist Church is as follows.
Ganggyeong Evangelical Holiness Church was established in 1923 and is
also the first church to campaign against shrine worship. 57 Sunday school
students refused to worship the shrine in 1919.
The church was put up for sale in 1953 because the place was small. It was
initially purchased by a Catholic to use it as a factory, but it had been empty
for a year because he was afraid of receiving God’s punishment by using the
Ganggyeon Baptist Church church as a factory. And the chapel was purchased by Pastor Yoon Ban-in,
Kim Hyun-gu and Kim Moo-woong and became a Methodist church. The
chapel was designated as Registered Cultural Property No. 42 in September
2002. The size of the chapel is 119㎡ with 4 bays in front and 4 bays in side
“Since its inaugural service in
and 16 bays in total. There are male and female doors on the left and right.
1889, Ganggyeong Baptist Church,
Floor is made of wood, and the ceiling is constructed as a lotus lantern style
founded in 1896, is the first
ceiling with exposed cross beams, collar beams, and rafters.
church established among
Protestants in Nonsan.”
the 100th anniversary monument of
Ganggyeong Baptist Church “Ganggyeong Bogok Methodist Church, a hanok-style church built in 1923”
Under the influence of Fenwick, a Canadian missionary who came to Korea in 1889, E.C.
Pauling and Amanda Gardeline, who were sent from the Ella Thing Memorial Mission of
Clarendon Street Baptist Church in Boston, USA, started the Ganggyeong Baptist Church at
Ji Byung-seok’s house at 136 Bugok-ri, Ganggyeon-eup on February 9, 1896.
When the church was liberated from Japan's oppression on Aug. 15, people used Japanese
temple in Honggyo-ri as a chapel, and Pastor Lee Jong-deok was invited as the first pastor
of the church. Pastor Lee Jong-deok was arrested in 1903 at the age of 19 for participating
the Independence movement, and imprisoned at the Imcheon police substation, but he
was released with the help of missionary Fenwick and Imcheon community leader, Jang
Ki-young, and became the first seminary student to enter the Bible Academy of Gongju
Church. In 1906, the first Baptist Church Convention was gathered at the Ganggyeong
Baptist Church, and from then on, the Bible Institute was opened and it became the current
Korean Baptist Theological University Seminary. The site of the Ganggyeong Baptist
Church at 137 Bukok-ri, Ganggyeong-eup has designated as a Baptist Church Historic Site Ganggyeong Bugok Methodist Church (Registered
Cultural Property No. 42 in September 2002)
by Korea Baptist Church Convention.