Reverend Daniel Taimook Kim was the church's first minister. In this photo from around 1952, he poses at Foundry front entry with the Yang and Park families, as well as other congregants. Photograph courtesy of Carol Kim Retka.
This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: Korean Church in Washington (Foundry Methodist Church)
This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: Korean Church in Washington (Foundry Methodist Church)
Finding Asian American History: Korean Church in Washington (Foundry Methodist Church)
The Korean Church in Washington, the first such Christian congregation in DC, met weekly in Foundry's Ball Memorial Chapel for 27 years. Established in 1951 with several dozen congregants (most of them Presbyterian), it established a Korean-language…