Robert Jermain Thomas Memorial Church

Now home to Pyongyang University of Science & Technology, in 1931, the “Robert Jermain Thomas Memorial Church” was built near the spot where the namesake was killed in 1866.

The Pyongyang Revival occurred in 1907

From Wikipedia:

^[3]“One government official named Pak Yong-Sik who took home some of the Bibles thrown onto the river bank, used them to wallpaper rooms in his house, so people were able to read the gospel there for themselves.”^[4] This was discovered by the local Christian community in early 1900s, and people came from all over to read the words on his walls. Eventually, a church was established in the area. Certainly, Thomas’s influence grew after his death. Only fifteen years later, Pyongyang had become a strong Christian center with a hundred churches.^[2] According to Sungho Choi, lecturer at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology, contemporary Korean Christians may not know that Wales is a country with its own language and history, but they do know that Thomas was Welsh.^[5]

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