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"Mwenzo Church ‘abuilding’." Exterior view of men standing on a wooden scaffold and constructing a brick archway as an entrance to the church. Construction was completed in 1914 ❧ Mwenzo is situated half way between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika in the Namwanga Country and just four miles from the Lake Company’s Fife station. Founded in 1894 by Alexander Dewar (d.1943), in reaction to the expansion of the catholic missions in the north, it was situated close to the border of German East Africa and was over run during the First World War. It was run, much of the time, by Yohane Afwenge Banda, a Tonga evangelist and Dr James Alexander Chisholm (1872-1936) who ran the mission and hospital from 1900-1936, he was also appointed J.P. of Rhodesia and translated the New Testament into Chinanwonga. The Chisholm Memorial Hospital in Mwenzo was named after him.
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