| Title |
A Study on the Floor Plan and Transition of Early Protestant Churches in Gwang-ju Region |
| Authors |
Shin Woong-Ju ; Han Chung-Han ; Park Kang-Chu |
| Keywords |
Protestant ; Church ; Church Buildings ; Transition |
| Abstract |
This study analyzes floor plans and changes of church construction in Gwangju city with 68 of 120 churches which have been dissolved and developed from introduction of protestant church to before Korean liberation and can be summarized as follows. Churches in Gwangju were pioneered by missionaries of American Presbyterianism and built with self-support by using traditional Korean houses and missionaries' houses under the principle of Nevius mission and changed into new construction only for worship as times go by. Floor plans of early churches was for worship space, but space for community was greatly enlarged and floor plans and spatial characters were varied. Recently built churches placed more emphases on functionality than on its scale and norms of denomination. Accordingly, church construction of protestant church combined with traditional architecture in Gwangju region has regional characteristics, but it has shown similar aspects in church construction of the whole country as it has been developed to modern church. |