[1][2] It is dedicated to Kang Pan-sok, a deaconess in the Presbyterian church who was the mother of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung.

[4] According to North Korea, the church was destroyed in June 1950 in the beginning of the Korean War by an American bombing[1] and Kim Il Sung ordered that the church be rebuilt on the spot where the original one associated with his mother had stood.

[8] The church welcomes believers on official visits, foreign travellers to Pyongyang, diplomats, and members of international organizations.

Morale, patriotism and national unity are celebrated there and prayers are made for the reunification of the country.

[12] South Korean pastor Han Sang-ryeol visited the church on 28 June 2010.