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Title
Group at church opening, Ikot Ekpene area, Nigeria, ca. 1933
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1928/1938
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white photograph showing a large group of Nigerian villagers at a church opening in the Ikot Ekpene area, now in Akwa-Ibom state. The church is a one-storey building made up of large stone blocks. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-187.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77806
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-187.jpg
Subject
Churches
Religious gatherings
Religious buildings
Religious activities
Missionary work
Group portraits
Time Period
1928/1938
Place
Africa
Awka-Ibom
Ikot Ekpene
Nigeria
religious facilities
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/187 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; First book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-1)
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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