Moon Family Photos Before 1972

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Portrait of Reverend Sun Myung Moon taken in (about) 1954. He is smiling and wearing a white shirt.

Reverend Moon and a number of early disciples at a graduation ceremony circa 1955. Reverend Moon is wearing a coat and hat.

 

Reverend Sun Myung Moon carrying a disciple on his back while fleeing North Korea circa 1951. Probable fake. From a photo of a man carrying his father. The father's beard and mustache was removed to make him look younger. Rev. Moon says that this photo is not of him.

Reverend Moon, Won Pil Kim and 2 other early followers on a hill top in 1954. 

Reverend Sun Myung Moon with early male member of the Unification Church. They are all wearing suits and ties. They are sitting on a hillside, on the grass, picnicking while Reverend Moon speaks. Young Whi Kim is one of the members.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon, wearing dress slacks and a white shirt, planting rice with peasants circa 1954.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon preaching in Korea, circa 1954. He is wearing a double breasted suit and tie, standing behind a table, reading from the Bible.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon planting rice with peasants in a village.

Portrait photo of Reverend Sun Myung Moon wearing Korean clothing, taken at the time of his wedding in 1960. (3/16/60)

Reverend and Mrs. Moon marriage. They are standing and wearing Korean wedding garments.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon's marriage, March 17, 1960. They are wearing western clothes.

Reverend and Mrs. Moon's holy wedding. They are wearing Korean clothing; facing each other holding hands.

Reverend and Mrs. Moon at their wedding. They are wearing white robes.

Painting of Rev. and Mrs. Moon's wedding. They are wearing Korean clothing.

The first Unification Church, built by Reverend Moon in Pusan Korea, in 1951. It is made from mud bricks and cardboard boxes.

Reverend Moon in South Korea, circa 1954.

Reverend Moon with early followers, including Won Hyo Eu and Won Pil Kim, circa 1954.

Reverend Moon reading, as he gives in outdoor sermon, circa 1954.

 

 The calligraphic signature of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

 

 Mrs Sun Kil Choi (sometimes Sun Gil Choi), Reverend Sun Myung Moon's first wife, mother of his first child.

 

Reverend Sun Myung Moon's middle school portrait, circa 1933.

 

 Reverend Sun Myung Moon was at school in Seoul from 1938-1941. Moon at right, takes his turn to cook for fellow lodgers. From left, Yoo Koo-bok, Moon's cousin Seung-gyun and Kwon Duk-pal, the lay preacher at the church which Moon attended. Circa 1940

 

 Jesus Church group in Seoul. Sun Myung Moon is standing second from right. Elder Kim Hee-son is at the top. Kwak No-pil, who was arrested with Moon as a suspected communist, is seated bottom right.

 

Reverend Sun Myung Moon standing below the clock, with fellow students in Bible study group in Seoul's Jesus Church. Picture taken February 1940.  

 

 Remains of Reverend Sun Myung Moon's childhood home in Sangsa-ri North Korea.

 

 Reverend Sun Myung Moon is standing second from the left. Seated right is his lndlady, Lee Kee-bong. Circa 1940

 

 Jesus Church Sunday School group in Seoul. Reverend Sun Myung Moon is second from right in the top row of boys. Circa 1940

 

 Reverend Sun Myung Moon's older brother, Yong Soo Moon, whose surviving family in north Korea allege was killed during an American air raid in the Korean War. Circa 1940

 

 Kim Kyung Gye, Reverend Sun Myung Moon's mother. Circa 1940.

 

 Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Young Oon Kim talk during Reverend Moon's visit to the USA in 1965.

 

 Reverend Sun Myung Moon and church elders pose with the 14 female students expelled from Ehwa University and the male students expelled from Yon Sae University for being Unification Church members. Photo taken on May 11, 1955.

 

 Portrait of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, circa 1960.

 

 Reverend Sun Myung Moon praying on a mountain side with disciples in Korea, circa 1959.

 

 The True Family circa 1969. Notice Mrs. Won Pok Choi wearing a crown and standing on Rev. Moon's left, just behind Ye Jin.
SM540000.gif (20799 bytes) Sun Myung Moon prays while Won Hyo Eu teaches the Divine Principle, circa 1954.
HH-Parents.gif (35849 bytes) Hak Ja Han (Mrs. Sun Myung Moon's Parents. (Photo of photo in Daemonim Museum, Seoul, Korea)
HH580000.gif (30238 bytes) Hak Ja Han in middle school, 1958(second from left) (Photo of photo in Daemonim Museum, Seoul, Korea)
HH580001.gif (31548 bytes) Hak Ja Han in middle school, circa 1958   (right) (Photo of photo in Daemonim Museum, Seoul, Korea)

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Hak Ja Han in middle school, circa 1958. (Middle of back row) (Photo of photo in Daemonim Museum, Seoul, Korea)

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Sun Myung Moon writes on the board while speaking as Won Hyo Eu looks on, Korea, circa 1954.

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Sun Myung Moon with Unification Church Members and their children in South Korea, circa 1954.

Sun Myung Moon reads from the Bible to his early followers in Korea, circa 1954.

Reverend Moon and Mrs. Sang Ik Choi visit the USA for the first time in 1965. With them are members from San Francisco, including Young Oon Kim, Edwin Ang, and Ernie Stewart. Behind them is the station wagon that Rev. Moon used to tour the USA.

After being refused a visa to the USA on December 11, 1971 due to alleged pro-Communist activities, Sun Myung Moon, went to Canada, where he was granted a visa. On December 18, 1971 he left Canada for the USA. In this photo Sun Myung Moon, Hak Ja Han, Won Bok Choi, Young Whi Kim, and Mr. Ishi sit with Canadian Unification Church Leader, Kathryn Bell Erickson (Behind Mrs. Moon) and members at the Toronto Airport as Rev. Moon leaves for the USA.

Sun Myung Moon, Won Pak Choi, Bo Hi Pak and his wife, Won Pil Kim, Hyo Won Eu pose together circa 1961.
Sun Myung Moon and Unified Family members at the Holy Ground, Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA, circa 1965.
Sun Myung Moon going from South Peak to North Peak Holy Ground, Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA, March 1965
Sun Myung Moon and Unified Family members bless a Holy Ground in City Park, Denver, CO, March 25, 1965.
Sun Myung Moon, Hak Ja Han, Won Bok Choi, and Young Oon Kim attend the Blessing of Dennis and Doris Orme, Paul and Crystal Werner, Peter and Gurtrud Koch, Martin and Dawn Porter, Reiner and Barbara Vincenz, and other European couples, March 28, 1969, Essen Germany.
Sun Myung Moon meets President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Eisenhower's office in Gettysburg, PA, during Rev. Moon's first world tour, June 25, 1965.
Sun Myung Moon tours the world in 1965. This photo is probably taken in Amman Jordan on August 28, 1965.

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