Abstract
The Suwon Diocese is the most important place in the 200 years of Korean Catholic history with its fourteen sacred places. It has the second largest number of believers in the country in its seventeen cities and two districts, and is still growing followed by a development of new towns such as Gwanggyo and Jukjeon. Liturgical space is a core place where divine services are executed and thus symbolizes identity of the church. In this study, we examined the configuration of the liturgical space to illuminate the contemporary trend of church planning in Korea. For this, we analysed its spatial components, i.e. sanctuary, altar, tabernacle, vestry, nave, church nursery, choir, confessionals and hall. The statistical findings are then compared with design manual of the Suwon Diocese in order to suggest a proper direction for the construction in the future. The evaluated at the end that as the standardized sequence of the liturgical ceremony demands a specific adjacency of the spatial components, the modern churches in Suwon Diocese still maintains the old spatial connections. Unlike the classical church plan, however, the contemporary church plans become more sub-divided to render the interior space more complex and become bigger to make the building more rectangular.