Prayer Mountain

     A few days after my first visit to Yoido Full Gospel Church, I decided to return and catch one of their buses to their Prayer Mountain, which is located in Paju.  It is equipped with motels and cafeterias, and makes a perfect, serene, get-away-from-it-all place of solitude (my kind of place from time to time.).

     I had some time to spare before the next bus, so I walked through a nearby park.

The bus ride was comfortable.

  
 After arriving, I check into one of Prayer Mountain's Motels.  The cost was about 20,000 wons.

Pictured below are prayer chambers.  They were well attended while I was there.  Campus security keeps them monitored for safety. 

     
There are several chapels on the campus.  Crosses like this one can be seen all over South Korea.

 Prayer meetings ... every two hours from early morning until late at night.

      The lady who wrote this book founded "Prayer Mountain."  She and her son in law, the Reverend David Cho, founded Yoido Full Gospel Church.  She was one of the many who fled North Korea back in the day....

Yoido Full Gospel Church

     Since the late 1970's I had heard about the church, and it's founder, who meet inside this building.  Finally, after a couple years in South Korea, I made a trip to Yoido just to visit a Sunday worship service.

     I arrived in the area on the night before.  I decided to locate the church building and make my plan for getting there.  I slept at a motel in Jongno, because I never located a Korean motel in the area near this church building.

    

      After the church meeting, I walked around Yoido a bit.

      That tall building is called "63 Building."  Look it up on Google.

 Can you see Seoul Tower back there?

 That's a floating stage.

 The building with the green dome is the National Assembly Building.

 Can you see Seoul Tower back there?

Before heading back home....