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“Platform and table, Mwenzo church.” Interior view showing a raised platform and an indigenous inscription on the wall behind. The pulpit/Lectern sits to the right of the platform and the church was built with a transept. The church was completed in 1914 under the supervision of Dr James Alexander Chisholm (1872-1936). ❧ Mwenzo was established in 1894, by Alexander Dewar (d.1943,) and was the first Free Church mission in north eastern Rhodesia. It was situated on the Stevenson road, which linked Lake Nyasa with Lake Tanganyika and was a major trade route, just four miles from the Lake Company’s Fife station. It was run, much of the time, by Yohane Afwenge Banda, a Tonga evangelist, and Dr Chisholm who ran the mission and hospital from 1900-1936. The name Mwenzo means ‘heart’ and refers to the station as being at the heart of Africa. At the time both Karonga and Mwenzo were situated close to the border of German East Africa and during the First War the mission was overrun and evacuated by senior staff.
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