Hauhyeon Cathedral Rectory

The area around Hauhyeon, sheltered by Cheonggyesan Mountain and Gwanggyosan Mountain, became home to a village of Catholic believers who had gathered there to escape persecution. In May 1894, the 31st year of Emperor Gojong, Father Alix, the second priest of the Royal Parish, observed that the Hauhyeon congregation performed their devotions in believers' homes for want of a chapel hall, and strongly urged that a hall be built. As a result, a thatched, ten-kan timber-framed hall was erected using funds contributed by Father Alix together with 1,500 nyang raised by the Hauhyeon congregation, and in 1900, the fourth year of Gwangmu, Hauhyeon separated from the Royal Parish to become an independent parish. The rectory of Hauhyeon Cathedral was then built in 1906, the tenth year of Gwangmu. Unlike most cathedrals, the rectory stands a little behind the cathedral, arranged alongside it. It has a timber frame, but is distinctive in that its walls are built of granite, independent of the timber columns at the perimeter. The eaves have no curved roofline, yet the roof still takes the form of a hip-and-gable roof, and the floor plan is arranged with a central living room flanked by rooms with ondol (underfloor heating) and a dining room. With its hip-and-gable timber structure, stone walls and ondol-heated rooms, it is a distinctive piece of modern architectural heritage in a Korean-Western eclectic style.

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Where it is

Region

Uiwang, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물