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In Korea during the enlightenment period, there have been very active changes in almost every field of the age, including politics, economy, society and culture, and these changes were no exception in the religious sector. In the case of Christianity which was introduced to Chosun, there were missionary activities focusing on areas that were essential to the people such as education and medical care advanced in the West, but Confucian philosophy and customs dominated the lives of most people in Chosun society. In particular, it has become imperative to secure a certain level of ethical and moral justification in order to effectively spread Christianity as an "equal and universal religion for all mankind" while minimizing the resistance of the existing social order from the Confucian philosophy and customs such as ‘Gender Discrimination’. The 'ㄱ' Form Church has a very unique external appearance of Christian architecture found only in Korea. The 'ㄱ' Form Church had various advantages, such as psychological comfort and ease of extension attributable to the Korean traditional architecture, elimination the limitations of sight and hearing in a sermon, and the natural separation of men and women set not only by Confucian traditional norms but also by the exact contents defined by Christianity. The purpose of this research is to study the characteristics and compositions of the worship space in the existing 'Keumsan' and 'Doodong' church, and to discover how those churches understood and adapted themselves to the various norms prescribed by Confucianism especially ‘Gender Discrimination’ in their architecture.