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Ganghwa Anglican Church is a unique architectural fusion built in 1900 by Bishop Charles John Corfe, combining the form of a Korean Buddhist temple with the liturgical plan of a Western basilica. The wooden structure sits amid a quiet village on Ganghwa Island and is designated Historic Site No. 424.
Bishop Corfe arrived in Korea in 1890 with the Anglican mission. Unable to import Western building materials, he commissioned Korean craftsmen to build a church in the only idiom they knew — temple architecture. The result is Korea's earliest example of inculturation architecture.