Gangbyeongdae Church, Namjeju

This church was built in 1952 on the orders of General Jang Do-yeong, commandant of the training centre, to strengthen the morale of trainee soldiers after the Army's 1st Training Centre was formally established at Moseulpo during the Korean War. Its walls are built of basalt quarried on Jeju Island, topped with a tin roof over a wooden truss structure, a form that reveals the circumstances of the Korean War era, when the building had to be constructed by army engineers with no involvement from civilian architectural craftsmen. It is a historic site where countless soldiers prayed before gruelling training or departure for the battlefield.

AI Translation

Where it is

Region

Seogwipo, Jeju

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산