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Yoido Full Gospel Church여의도 순복음 교회. Yoido Full Gospel Church (Korean: 여의도 순복음 교회) is a Pentecostal church affiliated with the Assemblies of God on Yeouido (Yoi Island) in Seoul, South Korea. With about 480,000 members, it is the largest Pentecostal Christian congregation in South Korea. [1][2] Founded by David ...
David Yonggi Cho (Korean: 조용기; 14 February 1936 – 14 September 2021 as Paul Yungi Cho) was a South Korean Pentecostal Pastor.He was the founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), which he started in a tent with 5 people (including his future mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil and her children as its first members), which eventually became the world's largest congregation ...
The island contains the National Assembly Building, where the National Assembly of South Korea meets, the Korea Financial Investment Association, the large Yoido Full Gospel Church, the 63 Building, and the headquarters of LG, Korean Broadcasting System, and the Korea Exchange Center.
Cho, an emeritus pastor at Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church, died at a Seoul hospital where he had been treated since he collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage in July 2020, the church said. ...
Hence, due to inaccuracies, the same church can sometimes be reported to have attendance and membership counts that differ 5–10 times, depending on how reporting is done and who is doing it, e.g. Yoido Full Gospel Church can sometimes be mentioned with attendance numbers over 800,000. [14]
Seoul is filled with so many church buildings and signs of the cross, that it has been called "a city of churches." [4] In 2011, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism there were almost 78,000 Protestant churches in Korea. [6] South Korea has the world’s largest church congregation at the Yoido Full Gospel Church.
Largest Oriental Orthodox church in the world Yoido Full Gospel: 7,450 (estimated) 44,000+ 12,000 1973 Seoul South Korea: Protestant (Pentecostal) Largest Pentecostal church St. Vitus Cathedral: 7,440 [citation needed] 1344–1929 Prague Czech Republic: Catholic Basilica Natn. Shrine of the Immaculate Conception: 7,097 [39] 10,234 10,000 1920 ...
Young Hoon Lee, who has served as the senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church since 2008, sparked controversy on May 16, 2023, when he attended the opening ceremony of the Liberty Korea Party 's headquarters in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. During the event, he urged attendees to support Jeon Kwang-hoon in his call to "eradicate communist reds," a ...