Heuksan Cathedral, Sinan

Heuksan Cathedral in Sinan offers a glimpse of how Catholicism spread to Heuksando Island, located at the southernmost tip of Korea's south-western sea. It is highly significant in both religious and local-history terms, as it carried out active service in fields such as education and medical care as well as missionary work, contributing to the development of what had been an underdeveloped local community.

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Where it is

Region

Sinan, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산