Seongyo Monument

The missionary monument here is a monument erected to commemorate the service of Bae Yu-ji, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, who was the first to be held in Gwangju, Jeonnam. It is said that there was a building used as a place of worship for Protestants on the roadside or at the place where the monument was erected near the Sajik City Library. Only the five words ‘Mission Monument’ are engraved on the monument, but a separate stone embedded in the pedestal says, ‘This is the place where Reverend Bae Yoo-ji, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, first worshiped in Gwangju on December 25, 1904, after being sent by God. In memory of his holy will, a stone monument was erected here. The words ‘Jeonnam Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, established on December 6, 1982’ are engraved in Korean and English.
It is said that the first worship service conducted by missionary Bae Yu-ji was later held at the temporary home of Jejungwon missionaries, and at the time of 1982, it was known that this was the location where the missionary monument was erected. Afterwards, the exact location of the site of Jejungwon was confirmed within the current Gwangju Christian Hospital through related literature, and a new monument was erected to commemorate it.

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